a good movie -but not best picture

Rating: 6/10 (6 March 2006)

crash is a good film, i feel the reason why it beat "brokeback" for best picture was mainly because it was a "safe" choice for the academy and it was set in L.A. This has all been done before in other movies. In the heat of the night, Mississippi burning and many others in the last 20-30 years.If it was about racism it should have also focused on EVERY minority in LA, Jews, gays American Indian (though very few in LA), and a dozen others. I have never seen a best picture only win 3 Oscars total in the last 20 years that I can recall. i really did not feel any sympathy for any of these people except for don cheadle's character and the Hispanic locksmith. it focused too much on the scumbag car jackers than anyone else. it seemed the academy had a difficult time this year deciding who to give the most awards to so they said, "lets divide them between brokeback and crash and give crash the best award because we don't want to upset the right wing groups. It didn't seem to bother the academy in 1969 when they gave it too an x- rated "midnight cowboy" Maybe times haven't changed so much???