More Oscar articles

Some more interesting articles about Crash and the Oscars. Gotta say I'm wanting to see this movie less and less, sorry to anyone who liked it... as both articles point out, racism today is generally much more covert and overt, and there are a lot of complexities surrounding the issue which it sounds like the movie pretty much ignores. Pity, because if they had set out to represent all the complexities of racism as it truly exists today, then I think it could have been an excellent film. I gather that the acting is very good, it's just the writing which is so typical and heavy handed.

( Article #1, pre-Oscars )

Article #2 (outside link)

Anyway, I went downtown today. Bought Harry Potter from Futureshop (shiny holographic cover!), then used my gift certificates at Chapters to buy Farscape: The Peacekeeper Wars (tucking it away without unwrapping it so that I'm not tempted to open it and look at it before I finish the series... but at least it's there when I do!) and Brokeback Mountain: Story to Screenplay (includes the short story, the shooting script, a few pictures, and 3 essays about the process of adapting the story to a movie). Have $2 left on the gift card now, yay. ^^;

Still haven't started writing the essay which I'd planned to have finished for tomorrow. Ehehe. Oh well, long as I finish it in Toronto for Monday...