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In Reply to: I finally caught "Crash" last night posted by dwill123 on June 15, 2005 at 05:25:33:
"Cultural themes"? *What* culture?I quote from my earlier post:
"And I found an excellent center seat in the theatre's second-largest (52 ft. screen) stadium house -- there to sit disgusted by the blatant contrivances of this dreadful film. The writer/director makes you know he has some Terribly Important things to say and the lecture, the harangue never lets up. Just one instance of how this all misfires: The "racist" cop Ryan (Isn't it racist as well to use an Irish name here?) upbraids a black underling for her pissy, bureaucratic response to his father's medical predicament, and eventually he uses racial terms, but really, isn't he just rather undeft in handling underlings?"
Worth looking up for the Boston Globe review attached:
- http://db.audioasylum.com/cgi/m.mpl?forum=films&n=35564&highlight=crash+clarkjohnsen&r=&session= (Open in New Window)
Follow Ups:
Ryan severely abused a black woman, earlier, then had to ask a favor of one. Later, in a rather ridiculous but interesting contrivance, he saved the life of the woman he previously abused--at great risk to his own.
Greek tragedies also have a strong POV, it's how the artist conveys the message, not the message itself. Hmmm. Boston isn't exactly known as an outpost of racial harmony as I remember from my years there with the racial taunting at high school football games; Southie was known as a very dangerous place for a black guy to be after dusk---just like certain areas in the more maligned Deep South.
I felt the characters themselves were just representations of Mr. & Mrs. Everyday People. They didn’t have to be any more real it was the situation and the reaction that was being highlighted. From there the question would be, “How would I (meaning you) respond to this situation”. For everyone sitting in the theatre you’ll surely get as many different responses because we all different (and yet were all the same) given our socialization.
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