In a Paralell Universe, Meryl Streep wins...

I ignored the blind side until after Sandra Bullock's oscar win last night. I genuinely thought that it would be one of those competently made, but annoying if you think for a minute, message-movies the academy loves so much, like crash, also with Bullock. But it's so much worse... The whole point of the movie is that being adopted by rich white people will turn black kids into a success via the arts of montage, trite metaphors and incredibly obvious life lessons. I'm usually not that sensitive to random race issues, but the whole atmosphere of the movie was slightly sickening. It's almost as if the main thing keeping black people from success in America is their lack of structure, homespun wisdom and connections to college football teams. What's next? A Barack Obama biopic where he gets taught to dream of the presidency by a kindly old Richard Nixon? A young Nelson Mandela travels back in time and learns about the injustice of slavery from Abe Lincoln? Snoop dogg dropping out of high school because the ghost of Billy the kid tells him so?