DVD Times - Crash - Best Film?
This guy at DVD Times has written a spot-on review of the most over-rated film I've seen in an awful long while. Go and read it, do, then come back and read my thoughts on the same film...
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I watched this film a little while before its Oscar nomination and to begin, it was a pretty interesting film with an astonishingly good cast and full of fairly interesting characters whose lives were intertwined a la Pulp Fiction.
Then it just got rubbish. Its only purpose was to explain that racism is in the world and especially so in a place like L.A. where no-one really knows anyone anyway.
Well done, Sherlock, racism exists indeed. I'd never have guessed with the world's climate the way it it. Anyway, this point was then repeated verbatim within each character's arc and it just got so overwhelmingly irritating that anything done well or fairly exciting in the film was just saturated with the film's sole purpose that I just wanted it all to end. The film, that is.
Crash is a film made by people who think they know more than they do, exist on an intellectual plane above the one theya ctually reside upon. It shows. The film is not clever. Not after 45-60 mins anyway. It had potential to be a great film that just happened to have some racist themes, but oh no, it had to be a preachy overly-moralistic piece of pseudo-journalism that, in all fairness, probably hit home in the USA far more so than in the UK. I don't need to explain why.
Oh dear...
Godfather.
