[Cooley 350Z]

I was glad to see Crash win it this year. It's a really brilliant film that I highly recommend to everyone. I saw Brokeback and thought it was very well done, but Crash easily was the best film.

What really gets to me about the whole thing is the way people involved in Brokeback (i.e. Ang Lee & the woman who wrote it) are going around throwing a temper-tantrum because they got beat. The woman who wrote Brokeback even went so far as to write a rant in a pretty big newspaper basically saying Crash was a bad film & only won because the Brokeback was such a controversial subject. She even belittled herself by referring to Crash as "Trash".

Now I know that a movie based around romance between two cowboys might be controversial, but anyone who has seen Crash will tell you this is as controversial a film as you will find, about race, prejudice & the snap-judgements we make about others every day.

Whatever happened to losing with class? To even be considered for "Best Film of the Year" should be considered an absolute honor, not a reason to spit & cry upon finding out you didn't win it all. Kudos to those involved in Crash. End of rant.