Here come a series of articles about the Academy Awards...Unspoken prejudices?
Film critic Kenneth Turan, writing in the Los Angeles Times, said the problem wasn’t with the film’s quality. Rather, he said, “you could not take the pulse of the industry without realizing that this film made people distinctly uncomfortable.”
“In the privacy of the voting booth ... people are free to act out the unspoken fears and unconscious prejudices that they would never breathe to another soul, or likely, acknowledge to themselves. And at least this year, that acting out doomed ‘Brokeback Mountain.”’
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