I saw The Barbarian Invasions, and it touched me, for the topic of the "companio moris", which means, in latin, the person(s) you choose to have beside you to die, the last face you wanna see before to pass by. Perhaps the theme of euthanasia, remember the following year the winner was "Mar Adentro" (Sea Inside) by Spaniard Alejandro Amenábar, with a story about a gang of friends who help a paraplexic man to die. Perhaps it was a fashion, but suddenly it was over. The themes to impress the Academy are so diverse... And the members of the academy are so diverse...