>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.

have not seen the film but i will.


>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.

if the director had made it the movie's purpose to give origins of systematic racism, or spelled it out using one of the characters, would it then have been a worthwhile movie?


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myself is sculptor of
your body’s idiom:
the musician of your wrists;
the poet who is afraid
only to mistranslate
a rhythm in your hair...
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