Re: Crash - exceptional
Sep 29, 2005
Yeah the racism depicted just seems so commonplace, a part of every day life, not like other movies on the topic filled with melodrama...it just grips you by the scruff of the neck and makes you realise prejudice is not something that sparks off at isolated moments, its there in all of us, all the time...Course these days we're goin overboard in the other direction, overcompensating with political correctness...was good to see people rising above their own prejudices here...A great honest movie, really did take me by surprise, even if some of the coincedences were far fetched, but poetic licence, and well the acting just covered up all the cracks.
Good to see Matt Dillon get back to an intense role, most people these days just seem to think he's the goofy guy from Somethin Bout Mary...The Hispanic guy was brilliant I thought, the scenes with his daughter didn't seem contrived at all, even though they were filled with sentiment, didn't turn mawkish at all...I'm a big fan of ensemble movies like this in general anyways, it seems actors feed off each other in them to up the ante...Sandra Bullock is a good case in point here
Hmm as for the oscars, perhaps the timing of its release was a bit off, I suspect people will rave but by the time the nominations are out, everyone will be like 'shouldn't it have got nominated last year?'
[quote="Lethe"]It's a brilliant movie, all about prejudgement, racism, and how disconnected we become from one another out of fear and stereotyping. The acting was incredible by the entire cast -- which is stellar: Ryan Phillipe, Don Cheadle [he was also in Hotel Rwanda], Matt Dillon, Thandie Newton, etc. -- and it seemed very... sincere? Genuine? It didn't feel like watching acting, it felt like getting a glimpse into these little snapshots of people's interconnected lives. I highly recommend it, and I suspect it will be nominated for best picture.[/quote]