Annie Proulx (BBM author) lashes out!!!

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Originally Posted by Boots

Why did Crash win? It had exceptional writing, beautiful acting, and a hard hitting arc that could leave you on the edge of your seat. It dug deep into the psyche of our society and purged concepts about racism we never knew we had. It had stunning, sweeping moments of anger, horror, sorrow. I'm sorry there are some who don't understand this.

I understood Crash. I think it's insulting to say that I and others didn't like it because we didn't understand it. I also understood it was heavy-handed, muddled and completely unoriginal. As for acting, I personally didn't find any of the performances in that movie as moving or heartbreaking as Heath Ledger's in Brokeback or as brilliant and thoughtful as Philip Seymour Hoffman in Capote.

Edit: Oh and Matt Dillon is far more brilliant in Factotum than in Crash.

Originally Posted by Boots

Crash shows a basic, human condition in today's post 911 society that we cannot deny.

That everyone is basically racist?

Originally Posted by Boots

It's good to see a film like Crash get the top honor. To those who don't agree...too bad. I had to suffer through "Titanic" and "The English Patient"...both top Oscar winners in their day, and I ...for the life of me...could NOT understand why those two manipulative, crappy, sappy, films took home best picture.

I thought Crash was every bit as manipulative as those films.