No Oscar Winner in my Book But A Powerful Statement Anyway

Rating: 5/10 (8 April 2006)

I saw this movie and do not understand how this got to be best picture. I think the acting is superb and the character portrayal real and the plot believable---but best picture? NO WAY. I don't understand it. Brokeback Mountain was so much superior. This was a compelling and realistic portrayal of racism and the seedy side of life in modern Los Angelee. The movie is abundant with profanity and violence and characters that seem to have nothing to do with each other, yet are somehow connected to the fabric of the city. Look, it is a good movie, but a best picture Oscar winner. I think absolutely not. It is not in that league.