Annie Proulx was right

Rating: 1/10 (4 April 2006)

When "Brokeback Mountain" didn't win Best Picture, I sarcastically told a friend the voters would be accused of homophobia. Sure enough, not only did critics see closeted Bushbots in the Academy, but so did "Brokeback" author Annie Proulx, whom, during the big hissy fit she threw in The Guardian, named "Crash" "Trash." I won't waste my time commenting on Proulx's idiotic rant, but she was right about "Crash", which I finally got to see last night.
The racist cop saves the black woman he assaulted?! The Persian shop keeper shoots point-blank at the Latino locksmith but misses because the locksmith's daughter is his angel?! The shop keeper just happens to be the father of the coroner who has to break the news to the black cop about his punk brother who got offed by the racist cop's partner, who kept the husband of the woman the racist cop assaulted from getting blown away by his trigger-happy cohorts?! The white trophy wife learns her "best friend" is the Latina maid she hates?! I don't know what was worse, the absurd and utterly insulting coincidences or how it ends with the Cambodians being tossed onto one of the worst sections of town like garbage with $40! Can't we all just get along, my ass, Paul Haggis! Avoid this wreck!