Ridiculous

Rating: 1/10 (27 April 2006)

This is possibly the most awful movie to ever win the best film Oscar. The film is too dumb to say anything remotely insightful about race relations.
The conversations are implausible, the situations are hysterical, and there was no sense that the writer cared to create three dimensional characters that would actually exist in real life. Each player only exists to serve an easy gimmick: portray each character as an ethnic stereotype and then do a complete character reversal before the end credits.
The whole film is a straw man's argument. It invents a misrepresentation of the real world and then criticizes its own fictitious creation.
Worst of all, with each character so motivated by racial hatred, the audience simply cannot relate or reflect. Real human beings cannot empathize with caricatures. So the film turns the viewers into armchair moralists where we can judge these people on screen without reflecting on our own prejudices, because the viewer is unlikely to go off spewing racial name-calling in the most benign situations like these characters so freely do.