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Sunday, December 11, 2005 - 2:14 PM
movies and life
Paranoia...
last friday, my professor in journalism saw this dvd on top of the table. she asked us if we've watched the movie (most of us answered her with an empty stare). she said it was a good movie and that we should watch it... so i borrowed it.
i thought that it would be really boring to watch another movie with a 'racial discrimination' theme. but then again..
Crash, a film directed by Paul Haggis proved me wrong (oh so wrong).
the movie is a creative connection of different stories of different people from different 'races' and different lifestyles. each story would unfold pages of the lives of the other character. there are cops Graham and Ria (Don Cheadle and Jennifer Esposito). there's the district attorney and his wife (Brendan Fraser and Sandra Bullock). there are criminals (Ludacris and Larenz Tate). there are some more cops (Matt Dillon and Ryan Phillippe). there's a TV director and his wife (Terrence Dashon Howard and Thandie Newton). and there's a locksmith and a shop owner (Michael Pena and Shaun Toub). all of their m****f*****' lives are intertwined. all of them have problems.
i have to tell you one of my favorite story was that of a white cop (Dillon) and a black couple - director and his wife (Howard and Newton). Dillon molests Newton in front of her husband (finger.. you know..) while they were 'under his custody'. Howard couldn't do anything and gets even more degraded by apologizing to the officer. this made friction between the couple and eventually they had a fight. at the latter part of the movie, Newton got into a car accident and Dillon was the only officer who could help her.
She refused at first - of course, after that beastly thing the cop had done to her. but here comes the nice part, Dillon did everything to help the lady.. even when the car got caught on fire.
i have realized that there is a big gap between the races in america. it seems that having a gun gives you an upperhand in things.. but the movie doesn't just make you realize that there are a lot of crime and transgression and other bad stuff out there. it also let's you know that there are still good things happening.
Crash is a movie full of twists and turns that would surely keep you on your feet (literally and figuratively). this movie is one of the few that almost brought me to tears.
watch it people, WATCH IT!
ehjiboi got weird at 2:14 PM
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