I don't care how technically good it is, I don't care that it won Best Movie, I don't care that it is dripping with celebrities. I absolutely hate the movie Crash. It's heavy handed, it's hopeless, it's tries too hard to manipulate emotions and now I'm pissed off because I gave it a second chance.
Yes, let's watch everyone be shitty to everyone else for shitty reasons and watch it blow up in their faces. I know! It's a brilliant expose of race relations in L.A. Whatever. It's bloody unbearable to watch, and the two seconds of redemption don't make up for the rest of the two hours of heartbreak and misery. I'm all for movies that are about educational, enlightening, make you realize an entire world outside of our own. Movies about disease, insanity, etc. I can handle them. There is usually a moment of lightness. A glimmer of hope. SOMETHING besides the cyclical crush of humanity destroying itself. I knew better. I knew better, and I watched it anyway. My own fault.
Oh, and if you're confused, I mean the 2004 Crash, not the mid 90s one with James Spader about people getting off on car crashes.
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I guess I shouldn't really be surprised that we see this movie differently. I am surprised, though, that what you see is the "cyclical crush of humanity destroying itself." Personally, I like the movie because I see it as hopeful! Sure, the "good" characters do bad things/make bad decisions, but the "bad" characters also do good things/make good decisions. I like that the movie shows human imperfection and capacity for both good and evil. Mostly, that no one is "good enough" to always do good or "bad enough" not to experience moments of redemption.
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