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In Reply to: "Crash" posted by rico on February 28, 2006 at 11:35:35:
...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
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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
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