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In Reply to: Re: Ebert: A Critical defense of Crash posted by PhilNYC on January 13, 2006 at 12:04:57:
Which comedies?Crash does not analyse racism -- that really was not the point. Like Munich don't go in expecting an answer -- if it had the answer chances are it would be a bad film.
There is nothing sledgehammerry about Crash. For it to hit you over the head it would have to clearly have something to preach. The film merely is and offers no resolution. Neither, interestingly enough does Munich.
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Bulworth, White Men Can't Jump, and even something like Guess Who are the three that popped into my head. Guess Who was below average as a movie, but still IMHO did a great job in treading the line between caricature and real.Perhaps I used the word "analyze" and "sledgehammer" incorrectly here, but I felt Crash was just a collection of racism stereotypes all thrown into one movie, and all the contradictions within the characters were predictable. To me, it didn't raise any new points or change my thinking in any way.
At the risk of starting something here, I wonder if there is any demographic segmentation between the people who thought Crash was a great movie vs. those who thought it was contrived...most of my close friends are minorities in the US, and very few of them thought Crash was anything special...
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