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Posted by Frank Longo, Mon Mar-06-06 12:28 PM
>Brokeback Mountain was a true forbidden love story, told
>really well. You almost forget the rntire issue of "gay
>cowboys". Good Bye, and Good Luck was a clear message film,
>except it's message was a true one that actually applied to
>today and sent a real message. Munich was much more of a
>storey than the political film it's being made to be. As for
>Capote, I really don't quite see the "issue" there. Just
>cause he's gay or is covering a muder trial doesn't make it an
>issue film.
>
>Crash was very aware, in a most annoying manner, of how it
>should be perceived: as a film about our "hidden" racial
>biases and how we're all just people inside, without saying a
>single word about systematc racism or how this kind of racism
>is REALLY started or anything even close to as subversive as
>what they want everyone to think it is.