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Monster's Ball is RACIST!!! Boycott Halle Berry
You mean to tell me that in 70+ years of Oscar awards, the Oscars skipped over every "decent" film contribution made by Lena Horne, Dorothy Dandridge, Cecily Tyson and hundreds of other black actresses in hundreds of films -- and waited until a black woman is sexually servicing a white man to finally give an award to a Black actress in a lead role? And there is no coincidence, whatsoever, to the fact that black women were forced to sexually service white men during slavery? This is an awfully BIG coincidence that a black woman finally gets an Oscar for a role where is is a subordinate to a white man in a superior position -- just like the good ole days of slavery? And I guess black people are expected to be too DUMB to figure out that this movie and the Oscar award was a DISRESPECTFUL SLAP to black women? Come on now -- I know that black people are not too dumb to see this for what it really is. True, there are some black people who will use one brain cell to say, "Well, she's pretty, so I guess I will overlook all of the racism that happened with this Award." But not all of us are so STUPID and submissive of racism. This is one movie that needs to be banned for being politically incorrect and disrespectful to blacks, just as Birth of a Nation and Song of the South were once banned -- please put the one at the top of the ban list. And by the way, boycott Halle Berry for her participation as "ho" to Lions Gate being the "pimp" to the Oscars "john" because Lions Gate DUMPED N'Bushe Wright and Angela Bassett because they were too dark and refused to do the nude sex scenes. Also someone tell me why the Oscars gave the first and only award to a black woman for a PORN role??? If you reverse the race roles in Monster' Ball and made the lead character a WHITE woman and the lead actor a BLACK man, those actors would have been blackballed, blacklisted and probably lynched. But because of the legacy of slavery, I guess it is okay for the white man to have the black women, but not the other way around. When the Oscars give an award to a movie with a white woman in a similar sex role with a black man like Monster's Ball -- then I will lift my boycott to Halle Berry. But until then, I plan to protest and boycott this film and Halle Berry and will not support any of her future films as well.

Not a Pornographic Horror Film
Academy Award Winners Halle Berry & Billy Bob Thorton (Best Actress,
'Monster's Ball'; Best Screenplay 'Sling Blade') along with Academy Award nominee Heath Ledger (Best Actor, 'Brokeback Mountain') and Peter Boyle
turn in Oscar worthy performances in this incredible film. This movie was called 'The Best Picture of the Year' by Roger Ebert and won Halle Berry her Oscar and had nothing but Oscar worthy material in it. Peter Boyle (of 'Everybody Loves Raymond') should've got an Oscar nomination for his raw performance as Billy Bob Thorton's father. Thorton plays Hank. Hank is a racist department of corrections officer, about to supervise the death of a black man (Sean 'Diddy' Combs) on Death Row. His son Sonny (Ledger) who disagrees with his fathers ways works beside him. After a nasty spat with his father after the man's death, Sonny commits suicide. While driving down a street one night, Hank sees a young black woman clutching her son who was just hit by a car. The woman is Leticia (Berry), the wife of the man put to death. Despite his views, Hank falls in love with Leticia who doesn't realize who Hank is. My synopsis may not be convincing enough to really convince you of how good this movie is, but I hope you see it. This is really a spectacular movie that shouldn't be missed. A-

When your life feels like its ending, it may be just beginning...
Thats how you feel when you watch this powerful film about a black woman (Berry) who loses everything, her husband, her son...just to find love in the eyes of a stranger. Not just any stranger...but a racist white man who helped execute her husband. Leticia (Berry) is struggling to keep her family alive, with no help from her inmate husband on death row. She works a dead end job to feed her obese son and in her eyes, it all seems pointless...like her life is going nowhere. When her husband is executed and a freak accident causes her the loss of her son she's thrown into an almost unwilling relationship with Hank (Thorton) a racist warden at the prison her husband was killed in. Their relationship is strange to each other, and they want it almost as much as they're afraid of it, and it's the fear that I feel makes them want it even more. This film has strong performances with an even stronger life lesson tagged on. Sometimes we think we know ourselves, but with the snap of your fingers your can find that you never knew yourself at all. I was so happy to see Halle take home the oscar and I hope to see her tackle more roles that challenge her and prove that this was not a fluke. Look for strong performances by Heath Ledger (this is the film that persuaded Ang Lee to cast Heath in Brokeback Mountain) as well as Peter Boil who is so evil you loathe him long after the credits are done rolling. This film touches upon raw human emotion coupled with real issues we still face today. Brilliantly acted and scripted and well worth all the praise.

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