Hugely overrated

Rating: 4/10 (9 March 2006)

I can't believe the hype over this film- it was such a clumsy exploration of race and racism, it was verging on pantomime. It isn't simply a case of film not matching the (now post-Oscar) hype, it just seemed not to even touch the true depths and subtleties of racism (the factors I personally find most disturbing) and instead boiled things down to a few sound-bites about, I dunno, Hispanic's parking, or white people being deprived of jobs.
In a way the hype over this film perhaps says a lot about how sad the state of the world is. If Sandra Bullock telling her maid that she's the only friend she has is taken as some kind profound and new statement about how "race really shouldn't matter," what does it say about the people watching this thinking "You know- I never thought about it like that?" Scary thought huh?