Getting ready for the Oscars

We plan to see most of the films nominated before the Academy Awards on February 29th.

Monster
I avoid movies with rape scenes like the plague. Can't stomach such scenes and even
less so when they are based on a true story.

Damn. This movie was too real. It was gritty like Leaving Las Vegas

Some people just have a f*cked up life from beginning to end. She couldn't get a break.
She tried and that was the heartbreaking part of it all.

Circumstance. Nature vs. nurture. Whatever...she did not deserve her sentence.
I haven't researched what happened to her partner, but when I do, I hope to find she
was prosecuted for her part.

Favorite Oscar memory: Roberto Benigni accepting his award for Life is Beautiful.