A Deserved Best Picture Oscar Winner

Rating: 9/10 (7 April 2007)

My parents got this on DVD and to be honest I wasn't all that bothered about seeing it since it is considered like KRAMER VS KRAMER , TITANIC ,and a few others to be one of those movies that didn't deserve to have won the Oscar for best picture of its year . Seeing as I knew it also had the subtext that " Racism is a terrible thing " I didn't want to watch a movie that was going to wallop me over the head with a PC agenda and seeing as we're shown very early in the movie a couple of homeys spouting " Why them white people hate us so much ? - Cos we got these motherf---in' guns " and a racist cop with his bleeding heart liberal partner . I knew where all the characters would be heading But...
This is not how the story plays out at all and if you go into the movie with the same sort of attitude I had then you will very pleasantly be surprised by this human drama and I won't ruin your enjoyment by giving away plot turns . Yes some of it is very contrived but it has to be in order for CRASH to work in much the same way as you have to suspend disbelief in a horror film for it to work such as a car breaking down outside the house of a mad axeman . Yes it might seem ridiculous that so and so should happen to attend a crash involving so and so or so and so's relative just happens to be so and so but that is not the point because it's the emotional plot turns that gives this movie its dramatic strength
This is a well thought out , very well acted drama that deserved every Oscar it received . In fact I'm very disappointed Mark Isham's beautiful score didn't receive as much as a nomination . There's two scenes , one featuring a car crash and another featuring a body being found that has the best piece of music I have heard in a film score since FELLOWSHIP OF THE RING and if anyone should feel disgusted at last years Oscar voters it should be Mr Isham not the producers of BROKEBACK MOUNTAIN