crash
Ann and I watched crash sunday nite. Very good movie. Ann didn't like the ending because everything wasn't wrapped up nice and neat with a bow on it. I liked it very much.
Good acting, good script. Although they really hammer the theme of the movie over your head. I think the neighbor kid with down syndrome would have gotten that it was about the racial tensions in LA.
Even so, I liked it a lot.
Well, all but one part.
I have watched a lot of movies, and it's always been quite easy for me to seperate the movie from reality, and never really get drawn in too much. This was true for me in all the scenes except the one where the locksmith was about to get shot. I just about couldn't watch. It was the most uncomfortable scene I've ever seen. Even more than the big scene in The Crying Game, and the torture scene in Reservoir Dogs.
But a good movie otherwise.
Comments
Crash sucked. For the same reason you said, they hammer the point so hard that even the mentally impaired can get it. You know what that's called? Preaching. The last thing I need is some screen writer in Hollywood preaching to me about something as trite and obvious as racism in LA. We all watched Rodney King and the riots in '92. Find an original idea and make an interesting story you assholes. Is that too much to ask for my $8.50? Best picture? You gotta be kidding. Didn't see Brokeback and probably never will, but gay cowboys is a hell of a lot more clever and creative than racial tension in LA.
Posted by: joel | April 4, 2006 12:23 AM