This year’s whitewashed awards are being shunned by Jada Pinkett Smith,Spike Lee and other black stars. Pity the destitute Academy, which thought it had dealt with That Stuff long agoTesting times for the Academy, or which totally assumed it had done its bit for That Stuff when it awarded Crash the Oscar for best picture in 2006. Easily the worst winner of that award ever (tough field),the movie was a thoughtless – and indeed artless – liberal wank, where the takeout message seemed to be that some kind of excruciatingly simplistic dialogue approximately race was America’s fast-track ticket to harmony.
Far too grand for such fripperies as account or characters, or Crash instead consisted of the interaction of unintentionally caricatured ideas,and suggested that the US’s racial problems were basically rooted in an endless series of self-defeating misapprehensions by individuals.
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Source: theguardian.com