Not sure about the Oscars

Rating: 6/10 (12 March 2010)

Nice message about what's really important in life. Nice delivery without being too obvious or overstated. Realistic characters, rather than caricatures. Good...well, everything.
So why wasn't I blown away? Maybe it's because my parents were passionately politically active and socially responsible. Maybe it's because I grew up with people who put their whole heart on the line every day for the things that mattered most in life. Maybe it's because I would never date or marry a person as disconnected as George Clooney's character. I'm not even sure how to BE as disconnected as George Clooney's character.
I get the genius of it. A guy lives his whole life never looking too deeply inside, and eventually, he decides to take a risk. A huge risk for someone like him. And it doesn't pan out. Does he fall apart? No. He shrugs his shoulders and goes back to his old ways, for the most part, but with a certain resigned melancholy brought on by his new self-awareness. That's life for most people. It just isn't my life.
Humanity makes me sad sometimes.