response to Roger Ebert's The fury of the 'Crash'-lash 3/6/06

Rating: 1/10 (7 March 2006)

Mr. Ebert I have always respected your opinion in the past, because you always stated specific reasons why you like or dislike a movie. As in this article, and in your top 10 movie list of 2005, you chose 'crash' over 'BM', that's fine with me. Everyone is entitled to have their own opinions. But let me ask you how many best picture prize 'crash' got in the top 8 (or top 10) prize awards last year before Oscar? and how many best picture 'Brokeback Mountain' got? As a professional film critic, you should know that better than I do! So don't tell me that the Oscar result is well justified. I happened to watch 'Crash' twice in the past year and I don't think it's a better movie. If you happen to like sensational, unrealistic racism tension, that's your business. But being a minority myself, I found that movie insulting and stereotyping on every single race it depicts. There is nothing encompassing about it. The story line about the black guy let off a bunch of filthy Asians in the back of a van right in the middle of the Chinatown is so unrealistic to the degree of being ridicule. Is that still how Americans see Asian people today? That we are just some helpless souls need a scum bag loser black person to liberate us for his personal redemption? How am I supposed to react or reflect on a movie in a name of 'takes the discussion of racism in America in a direction it has not gone before in the movies'? And you are wondering why some critics considered it as "the worst film of the year,"?