crash
i watched the movie crash this weekend at ben yancer's house. it was a very moving film. when the movie finished, the phrase that ran through my head was "bad things happen to good people and good things happen to bad people." but then i realized that it was much more complicated than that. it's so easy to put labels on people, labels like "good guy" and "bad guy" but really, life and people are so much more complex than that. there was one character in the movie that it was easy to hate--the "bad guy." he was a blatant racist and molested a woman when he pulled her and her husband over just to humiliate them. yet this same man went home and lovingly cared for his ill father and later was redeemed when he saved the life of the same woman he molested. the bad guy turned out to have some decency after all. some of the "good guys" ended up compromising their beliefs for one reason or another, and the one guy in the movie that seemed idealistic and free from prejudice ended up committing the most tragic act of all. the web of interconnectedness that makes up a person is far to intricate to be simplified by a single word.
posted by Amy at 11:03 AM
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i had seen the movie once before i saw it with you all. the first time i saw it, i cried through probably at least half of it. i couldn't even put into words how it made me feel to think about the issues it addressed.
thanks for your summmary! it helped me to place a finger on some of those feelings. it sure deserved its oscar win!
man, i really want to see that movie. ever since i heard about it on npr long, long ago, i've longed to see it. *sigh* i feel so uncultured.
I disagree. I thought it was too didactic, American History X was a much better film with the same subject. I suppose when you look at it more from the good/bad dichotomy it is better, but my racism got in the way of giving it a fair shake.
Uncultured Angela?
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