volume 2

you have been the one, you have been the one for me

Tuesday, September 27, 2005

crash
directed by paul haggis
sandra bullock don cheedle matt dillon jennifer esposito brendan fraser terrance howard chris bridges thandie newton ryan phillippe larenz tate michael pena.

i heard about this movie on mtv. suchin pak was talking to ludacris and all of a sudden he goes hey i have a movie coming out and then i have a nother movie coming out. the first one he was talking about was this one. the second one was hustle and flow.

turns out this one is not really "his" movie, and thats a really really good thing. its another one of those clusterfuck of stars kinda movies, with a starring cast too long to mention in a breath.

at the root of things, crash is about racism. pure blatant unadulterated saying things that everyone thinks but no one has the balls to say in public racism. racism in america, more specifically, and racism in one of the most diverse cities in the world, the city of angels, los angeles.

with so many characters and so many stories and so many plots and subplots, and with how much all of them are intertwined, its hard to pick out defining points. i guess the main theme is that, when it comes to racism and stereotypes and what people think of other people, no one is completely bad and no one is completely good. sometimes people just work hard to be the best people they can be, and fall under extreme circumstances.

sometimes people make decisions for the worse or for the better, and then, in a moment of weakness or strength, completely erase what they did before.

pretty much the best thing about this movie is that there are no heroes, and as depressing as that sounds, its really not that bad. the lines arent black and white (no pun intended), so the audience has to go figure them out for themselves. you leave the theater thinking, and thats the best part.

highly recommended. much better than glitter. enjoy.

posted by accident at 11:53:00 PM +

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