Brokeback Effect vs Crash Effect?

After Brokeback Mountain fail to be awarded the Best Picture, there was a flurry of gay activists (of course, the non-gays, not anti-gays, pro-gays as well, just about every segment of the opinion polls less anti-gays) who were whsipering out loud that it was not a fair ruling. Before that, during the run up to Oscars, there were many movie reviews which bordered along the "social commentary" lines. Male reviewers admitting to shedding a tear or two. Female reviewers supporting Lee Ang's proclamation that there is a Brokeback moment in all of us, men in particular. Whether or not your head gear of choice is a Stetson or you smoke mainly Marlboros or you wear leather boots exclusively. Annie Proulx claims that Thrash Crash, distributed by Lionsgate, won purely by the Blitzkrieg method in which they used 130,000 copies of the movie's DVD to influence the votes during the run up to Oscar night. Man (is this a lousy pun?), both Proulx and about 800 fans separately put up advertisements (in the case of Proulx, an article in Guardian but seriously, what's the diff?) And this Tom Gregory guy, who is a gay activist paid US$100,000 for two used cowboy shirts in an auction on eBay. Was he ever as generous to society before? Who the fuck cares seriously? US$100,000 man, that's alot of money. See? Gays are not discriminated (ok, I'm sounding like a bigot).

And what about Crash? Nobody really thought about how the director felt. Or the cast when all this accusations were being thrown around. It was a good piece of work and all the reasons of Los Angelenos having some sort of tacit *wink wink nudge nudge* about the movie, well, what's the best affirmative action?

500,000 Los Angelenos walking down in unison, wearing white shirts symbolising peace, in protest of new US legislation to curb problems of illegal immigration. On top of the 500,000, there were tens of thousands more in various states and cities. Of course, I'm pushing the assumption here that Crash was the cause of this. But wouldn't it be nice if a movie can do that to a city? Just like how a movie can do for a disgruntled group of movie fans, gay-activists and a 70 year old writer?