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Title: Contrived and heavy handed
Review: I can't believe this is up for best picture. The plot is so contrived and the dialogue so heavy handed--there are so many coincidences of characters running into each other at key moments in the story is just wasn't believable. And everyone always happens to be talking ideologically, mostly about race. People don't talk this way. From the first line I just felt like I was listening to a writer's thoughts...not experiencing a story. I know I am in the minority, but this one just didn't work for me. First rule in writing is to make the story "do" exactly what you, the writer, wants it to do, but make it look like you had nothing to do with it. I could see this story "working" from the first scene. Disappointed. Thought the Academy had more intelligence than this. Good performances wasted on shoddy writing.
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