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Last evening i saw a Charlie Rose interview with Terrence Howard and I decided to watch "Crash" again, this for the third time. I have come to believe that it is a masterpiece. It's like a giant slap in the face followed by a bucket of ice water in the face. It brings out the bigotry and racism in us all while showung that we are all a mixture of good and bad, black and white. Yes, the coincidences are there and a little preposterous but they serve the film's point of view. I found each time I watched it to be very moving.
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...especially to those who like to be hectored, to assuage their "liberal guilt"."It brings out the bigotry and racism in us all." Speak for yourself, rico! In me it brings out disgust at at the flat and unsympatheric and shallow characters: a pair of "profound" car-jackers, a "bigoted" cop (typically Irish, wouldn'tya know?) who after getting his rocks off harrassing a black woman later crawls into a burning car to save her (the irony!), a Christ-like locksmith whose daughter is just barely saved from destruction (thank you, Father!) by an enraged Iranian (Irish, Iranian, can't trust 'em...). And so it goes, the whole contrived affair that makes white people feel righteous about confronting their "racism".
One critic called Crash "a simmering racial drama." And there you have it: A middlebrow classic.
clark
Yup and all the "It's so powerful" "So REAL!!" "SO daring!!!!" is worse than the movie... and that's saying something!
"Where are we going? And what am I doing in this hand basket?"
...those who fall for the banal and the pretentious. My best movie buddy left after fifteen minutes -- and I purposely hadn't said a word to him. Story: It was the DVD and he had three guests watching. Afterwards they asked him if he had gotten sick or something... too bad, because he missed a really great movie... So REAL... SO daring... After they left he called me up; he found their pitiful enthusiasm more disgusting than the movie itself.Me, I sat through it, in the theatre, but felt assaulted in a place worse than my ear: My head.
clark
Talk about stereotyping every character in the movie. I was disappointed after all the hype it received.
bleep
just to debunk them. That was the POINT.
Quite amazing you missed it--- not unexpectedly, mind you.
All kidding aside, I liked it very much as well.
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"It brings out the bigotry and racism in us all while showung that we are all a mixture of good and bad, black and white."
My thoughts exactly. That's why I liked this movie so much.
"Music is God's gift to man, the only art of Heaven given to earth, the only art of earth we take to Heaven."
-Walter Savage Landor
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