I read some of these entries and most are love it or hate it opinion on the film. My boyfriend refuses to watch any Academy Award winning films and I don’t blame him.

This movie, like Babel (which I didn’t like), had many different situations that were interconnected (as is everything in life), but in a film it can get confusing.

The one scene where the cop makes a split second decision reminded me of something I read in the book Blink, our unconscious decisions in moments of rapid decisions…

I have a tendency to get into movies when I watch them and I just was in the moment and must have cried about half a dozen times.

There were some flaws…(and I don’t want to give anything away.) Usually we watch movies to escape reality not to be thrown into it but this movie depicted issues of racism. It was a dramatic, depressing, and poignant film.