It’s not a super-big deal, but to my mind the Oscar victory of Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room director Alex Gibney’s Taxi to the Dark Side for Best Documentary over Charles Ferguson’s slightly favored No End in Sight does indeed signal that there’s an agitated liberal voting bloc in the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. Who knows the exact size — Taxi to the Dark Side is a fine film, it must be said, with its own merits — but the personal is the political is the personal all over again. The former film focuses on an innocent Afghan taxi driver who died after being imprisoned and tortured in Iraq; the latter movie, which assays with surgical precision the post-war bungling in the aftermath of the invasion of Iraq, drew some criticism from the far left for not being an explicit enough critique of the Bush doctrine that led us to war in the first place.
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I don’t know that it’s a liberal voting bloc conspiracy — couldn’t it just be that voters actually liked it MORE?