Tsotsi

I just saw the film Tsotsi. Seeing it has made the kerfuffle over whether Crash or Brokeback Mountain deserved the Best Picture nod more meaningless to me than it already had been. I only saw three of the Best Picture nominees and in my opinion this film tops each of them. It is gritty, harsh, difficult at times, yet for all that, it is movingly humanistic and redemptive. And with great music to boot. I've never been one for writing reviews...I can never seem to come up with enough adjectives, nor think of anything original to say. So I won't bother. I'll just say this: Sometimes, after seeing a film, I'm really glad that I went alone, so that I don't have to talk to anyone when it's over, for fear of losing some little part of the film that my mind is struggling to hold on to. Tonight was one of those times.