Feb13

The other night, I watched Fight Club and the haiku scene spoke to me:

First off, it emphasizes the mundane routines that most of us trudge through each day, but more poignantly, seventeen syllables really sum up the theme of the movie.  That said, I figured I’d go through this year’s Best Picture nominees and see if I could capture each one’s essence through haiku:

Avatar

poorly insured vet

wooed by evil white men to

ruin blue harmony

An Education

don’t weep, poor David

humbert humbert grew madder

Roman had to flee

The Hurt Locker

some people love war

diffuse suicides with ease

cereal aisle boggles

The Blind Side

homeless and broken

white guilt builds great left tackle

i want an Oscar

Up

dreams of adventure

lost in one and only love

dreamt again in—squirrel!

District 9

a swiss cheese story

a wasted allegory

a craving for shrimp

Up in the Air

blame can be outsourced

reality: relative

get behind asians

Inglourious Basterds

{thump!} knells the Bear Jew

credits roll an inferno

bon joor no hitler

Precious: based on the novel “Push” by Sapphire

rolling hills of flesh

suffocating grief and pain

no redemption here

A Serious Man

i haven’t seen it

i hear it’s about a jew

can’t roll on shabbos