Damn you, Academy!
Okay, it's been a while since I posted.
Of course, I'm pretty pissed about Brokeback Mountain losing best picture at the Academy Awards. Crash? Come on. I saw Crash, and thought it was interesting and all that but it in no way beats out BBM, especially because the race lecture in cinema has been given over and over and over.
Do we really need yet another movie scolding us Americans about our pathetic race relations? Um, nah. I think we all got that memo... over and over and over again. For fuck's sake, let's move on to some other social critiques, shall we? Gay issues will be the predominant social and civil rights issues in this country for the next couple decades (at least), so cultural critics and the American public need to make the transition away from race obsession to other concerns. Movies like Brokeback Mountain help make that happen (this is the importance of art as a tool for social change in any culture).
I wasn't too disappointed that no BBM actors won in their categories because I already knew that would happen, although not giving Heath Ledger an Oscar was pretty cold because he was amazing in the film. I have to give props to Philip Seymour Hoffman, however, because he was pretty amazing as Capote (unfortunately).
At least Brokeback Mountain won three Oscars. Kudos to Ang Lee.
Of course, I'm pretty pissed about Brokeback Mountain losing best picture at the Academy Awards. Crash? Come on. I saw Crash, and thought it was interesting and all that but it in no way beats out BBM, especially because the race lecture in cinema has been given over and over and over.
Do we really need yet another movie scolding us Americans about our pathetic race relations? Um, nah. I think we all got that memo... over and over and over again. For fuck's sake, let's move on to some other social critiques, shall we? Gay issues will be the predominant social and civil rights issues in this country for the next couple decades (at least), so cultural critics and the American public need to make the transition away from race obsession to other concerns. Movies like Brokeback Mountain help make that happen (this is the importance of art as a tool for social change in any culture).
I wasn't too disappointed that no BBM actors won in their categories because I already knew that would happen, although not giving Heath Ledger an Oscar was pretty cold because he was amazing in the film. I have to give props to Philip Seymour Hoffman, however, because he was pretty amazing as Capote (unfortunately).
At least Brokeback Mountain won three Oscars. Kudos to Ang Lee.
posted by MW at Friday, March 10, 2006
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