Trick question! They're all Oscar clips -- one big epic montage of Berry getting her split-personality freak on with this accent and that wig, this meltdown and that comedown, this transgression and that redemption... Take your pick. All that's missing is Kirk Lazarus supplying the requisite ham in the Stellan Skarsgård role, and we're in real awards-season business.
Despite what you've heard, Frankie & Alice is no likelier than I am to earn an Oscar nomination this year. But you've really got to hand it to the producers -- and Berry, for that matter -- for the pure, reaching shamelessness of their trailer, from the requisite "bitch is mental" episode in the street to the sympathetic old white doctor who will diagnose and restore her to dignity. In between there are the ill-timed personality switches (a low, throaty "Frankie's not here, Mrs. Torrance," or something), some suggestive dancing (because, you know, Halle's fearless like that), and some awesome one-liners suggesting a patrician pedigree hiding behind all that skeeze.
In the spirit of climbing Mt. Halle because it's there, pick your favorite moment, and let's see if we can't find some consensus for Oscar night. And then, please, can we move on?
VERDICT: That crying sound you hear is Natalie Portman -- laughing.
[via AOL Black Voices]