Best Picture Haiku — 2013 Edition

Nebraska

Booze-addled father

Determined to keep walking

Follows many people.

Gravity

White-knuckle journey.

Catapulted forever

Home so far removed.

12 Years a Slave

Spotlight cast under

The floorboards of history.

Our culture of trade.

American Hustle

Post-Watergate years

Shape American culture,

Breed paranoia.

The Wolf of Wall Street

Scarface meets Wall Street;

Spring Breakers plus yachts and cash;

All comes crashing down.

Captain Philips

Somali pirates

Hijack U.S. cargo ship

Modern high seas war.

Philomena

An oppressive world

Shuns apparent transgression.

The search for a son.

Dallas Buyers Club

Emergence of AIDS;

Politics of division;

Death is not picky.

Her

Isolation breeds

Operating system love.

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