Crash (The Movie)
An absolutely brilliant movie! Completely deserving of its Oscar win for Best Picture, Best Original Screenplay, and Best Editing!
And "In the Deep" should have won rather than "It's hard out here for a pimp." Though I haven't watched the movie featuring that song.
I also haven't watched Brokeback Mountain, but I'll see it soon enough. I think that Crash is absolutely intelligent, full of irony (my favorite literary device), and overrun with such united plots like Pulp Fiction, that done wrong, could have relegated it to the genre of melodrama.
But as it was, Crash was a great movie for a time like today, when we are shown a more complex layer of each character in the film. From a superficial introduction of stereotypes and racism, we are taken deeper into the lives of each individual as what the outward pressure of society puts on the inward heart, and what that heart puts on itself, giving it its pull and push.
It confirms an idea that racism is much more than simply white people oppressing black, or black people self-oppressing themselves. That would be a stereotype of its own, an attempt to overgeneralize a complex idea.
The truth, if it can apply to a society that prides itself in equality but cannot apply it equally, could be that we are all a nation not only of nationalities, but also of individuals who each must hold a belief that he or she is always learning to re-evaluate based on outside circumstances.
Bravo. This movie I applaud!
And "In the Deep" should have won rather than "It's hard out here for a pimp." Though I haven't watched the movie featuring that song.
I also haven't watched Brokeback Mountain, but I'll see it soon enough. I think that Crash is absolutely intelligent, full of irony (my favorite literary device), and overrun with such united plots like Pulp Fiction, that done wrong, could have relegated it to the genre of melodrama.
But as it was, Crash was a great movie for a time like today, when we are shown a more complex layer of each character in the film. From a superficial introduction of stereotypes and racism, we are taken deeper into the lives of each individual as what the outward pressure of society puts on the inward heart, and what that heart puts on itself, giving it its pull and push.
It confirms an idea that racism is much more than simply white people oppressing black, or black people self-oppressing themselves. That would be a stereotype of its own, an attempt to overgeneralize a complex idea.
The truth, if it can apply to a society that prides itself in equality but cannot apply it equally, could be that we are all a nation not only of nationalities, but also of individuals who each must hold a belief that he or she is always learning to re-evaluate based on outside circumstances.
Bravo. This movie I applaud!
posted by Alan at March 11, 2006
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