Best Picture Haiku 2013

Silver Linings Playbook
mentally addled
meets lovely dancing woman
improbably healed

Les Miserables
Once, I dreamed a dream
that I had never seen such
inconsistency

Life of Pi
CGI Tiger
surprising adaptation
nabs Ang Lee a nom

Amour
devastating love
enduring through pain and loss
vintage Haneke

Django Unchained
revisionist tale
vicious antebellum South
his name is Django

Argo
TSA checkpoints
don’t look so bad now, do they?
Hollywood still sucks

Zero Dark Thirty
chronicled manhunt
unflinching: final thirty
honors SEAL Team Six

Lincoln
hunched shoulders, meek voice,
constrained movements portend calm;
tumult underneath

Beasts of the Southern Wild
stunning fairy tale
veers off rail: confused ethos
breeds murky narrative