Crash!
Watched this movie last night called Crash!
There is no way to actually make a synopsis if this movie. Except that throughout the whole damned movie I wanted to cry. It serves to remind us just how cruel, selfish, prejudiced and fucked up people are in the heads.
There were a couple of heroes in the film. People who at the end of the day didn't sell their souls to the Devil. Truth is, although the movie was primarily aimed at racism and prejudice, I found that it seemed to just talk more about people. People in bad situations just given a choice, to walk the high heavy road or take the easy way out. But the truth was that there was no easy way out and you just can't beat the universal game of dice.
Some interesting plots within the movie:-
Dirty cop who molests a black woman ends up saving her from a burning car at the risk of his own life. While watching this Bowen (sorry but this boy knows how to grate me the wrong way) blurted out he didn't understand why because the cop was meant to be evil. Sigh... it's never that simple. Things don't come in black and white, they come in shades of grey.
Two black men who steal cars for a living (one of them being Ludacris) - one of them is a racist paranoiac (ludacris) the other an easy going person. Ludacris the more 'evil' of the two, at the end lives and learns a lesson. The other guy gets shot by a cop who thought he was pulling out a gun when he was just pulling out some trinket. There is a, rather morbid, irony in the outcome of their story. Makes you wonder about that universal game of dice and karma.
Black cop hides information that would send an innocent man to prison so that his brother gets of the record. However, after hiding the information, his brother happens to be the black guy mentioned above who got killed. Now that is what I call signing a deal with the Devil.
The most scray part of the movie I guess is the angry middle eastern man who buys a gun at the beginning of the movie. And through some miscommunication, just bad language skills really, ends up wanting to shoot the innocent Latino door man. Ends up shooting the guy's daughter who ran in front of her dad. That was a terrible terrible scene... fortunately the moron's daughter had the sense to buy blanks instead of real bullets. Man I almost cried...
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Bottom line is this. The movie gave me nightmares. Yeah, really bad nightmares that lasted for hours on end. It was some sort of horrible mishmash of Silent Hill and the college and that really horrible sad feeling that permeated the entire movie.
What the hell... The world sucks. There was a time I imagined what if, what if the truth was that the world had already died and passed away, and that right now, this is hell - for eternity. And we'll just keep being reborn again and again into this mess we call Earth...
Fortunately the
There is no way to actually make a synopsis if this movie. Except that throughout the whole damned movie I wanted to cry. It serves to remind us just how cruel, selfish, prejudiced and fucked up people are in the heads.
There were a couple of heroes in the film. People who at the end of the day didn't sell their souls to the Devil. Truth is, although the movie was primarily aimed at racism and prejudice, I found that it seemed to just talk more about people. People in bad situations just given a choice, to walk the high heavy road or take the easy way out. But the truth was that there was no easy way out and you just can't beat the universal game of dice.
Some interesting plots within the movie:-
Dirty cop who molests a black woman ends up saving her from a burning car at the risk of his own life. While watching this Bowen (sorry but this boy knows how to grate me the wrong way) blurted out he didn't understand why because the cop was meant to be evil. Sigh... it's never that simple. Things don't come in black and white, they come in shades of grey.
Two black men who steal cars for a living (one of them being Ludacris) - one of them is a racist paranoiac (ludacris) the other an easy going person. Ludacris the more 'evil' of the two, at the end lives and learns a lesson. The other guy gets shot by a cop who thought he was pulling out a gun when he was just pulling out some trinket. There is a, rather morbid, irony in the outcome of their story. Makes you wonder about that universal game of dice and karma.
Black cop hides information that would send an innocent man to prison so that his brother gets of the record. However, after hiding the information, his brother happens to be the black guy mentioned above who got killed. Now that is what I call signing a deal with the Devil.
The most scray part of the movie I guess is the angry middle eastern man who buys a gun at the beginning of the movie. And through some miscommunication, just bad language skills really, ends up wanting to shoot the innocent Latino door man. Ends up shooting the guy's daughter who ran in front of her dad. That was a terrible terrible scene... fortunately the moron's daughter had the sense to buy blanks instead of real bullets. Man I almost cried...
..........................
Bottom line is this. The movie gave me nightmares. Yeah, really bad nightmares that lasted for hours on end. It was some sort of horrible mishmash of Silent Hill and the college and that really horrible sad feeling that permeated the entire movie.
What the hell... The world sucks. There was a time I imagined what if, what if the truth was that the world had already died and passed away, and that right now, this is hell - for eternity. And we'll just keep being reborn again and again into this mess we call Earth...
Fortunately the
posted by Ash at 6:51 PM
7 Comments:
i loved the movie, its awesome....
the what?
I think you got cut off there...
yeah, Crash was made by a canadian guy eh? (thought I'd just toot our own horn there hehe)
It IS an extremely moving film, although it has a large amount of stereotyping/prejudice in a 2 hour bundle which is quite overwealming, but enlightening nonetheless.
Before I saw it, my friend told me it was depressing to no end, which it is in some respects, but I feel the need to see the positives that still come out of the movie; like the realization of bad cop after rescuing the lady he harassed. And the realization of the crazy gun man after he almost killed the little girl. We are all sometimes products of the hurt that is brought onto us, and then we "crash" into each other with all this baggage. It's so messed up, but being able to recognize it more important than anything else.
I hope you have better sleep soon vong.
patey;]
I can't remember what I was going to say after that...
Oh well. Damned guns. Damned humans. sighz....
Sleep has been getting better though thank God
I LOVED that movie. I was so teary throughout it haha. My fav/teariest (equates with ur 'scariest' lol) part was when the little girl put herself between her dad and the gun =)
Aww I can't understand why you find the movie nightmarish. There was a great deal of sadness, but also some optimistic elements in there. E.g. cop not letting his racist nature impede heroic rescue of black woman, and latino dad and daughter escaping harm coz of luck.
lol i've just read the other comments and realized i've simply repeated what patey's pointed out about the positives in the film =)
I dunno... ghosts and demons are one thing.
But see... I guess to me, that's where the real demons are at work. Not in some great cosmic game that is so far fetched we would have no understanding of it. Not in oija boards, witchcraft and the whole lot.
They are here. Right here within normal human beings. I guess that's what I found so nightmarish about it. That's what I see all the time within everyone and thinking about it can send me crazy. So I've had to stop thinking about it. Maybe that's where the nightmare came from. I dunno... Maybe it just randomly came
All one to me :P
Positive points? Yeah I guess so. But you know what? If you had ten coins and one of them went missing, you'd be so much more disturbed by the one that went missing instead of feeling relieved about the nine that didn't. And that's what Jesus said
neptunian; it's all good, it only proves how right on I am, hehe
and vong we may only be mostly aware of the one coin we lost, but the other 9 are there whether we see it or not; the angels work just as hard as the demons. Thankfully, they do it even when we're too worried about the lost coin to notice them. I see hope in that, which brings about hope, whether others see it or not.
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