The polarization of "Crash"

LSPoorEeyorick · 01-20-2006, 08:24 PM

I guess I just find the whole thing so stilted that I can't get over it. It smacks of "weighty." iSm, I know you had the same problem with Million Dollar Baby last year (i.e. it was a tearjerker with "give me a shiny phallic statue" all over it)-- to me, this film was a "let's repeat racial insults back and forth for two hours and pretend we actually address the problem and people will shout hurray, they're talking about race, and not notice we're not addressing the problem, and give us a shiny phallic statue."

I know it wasn't that way to everyone, but then, I was touched by MDB-- and to me, it didn't cry out as Oscar-yearning, but rather as a lovely depiction of truly interesting characters in a moving situation. Tohmaytoh, tohmahtoh.

01-20-2006, 08:24 PM	#21
LSPoorEeyorick scribblin' Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: in the moment Posts: 3,872	I guess I just find the whole thing so stilted that I can't get over it. It smacks of "weighty." iSm, I know you had the same problem with Million Dollar Baby last year (i.e. it was a tearjerker with "give me a shiny phallic statue" all over it)-- to me, this film was a "let's repeat racial insults back and forth for two hours and pretend we actually address the problem and people will shout hurray, they're talking about race, and not notice we're not addressing the problem, and give us a shiny phallic statue." I know it wasn't that way to everyone, but then, I was touched by MDB-- and to me, it didn't cry out as Oscar-yearning, but rather as a lovely depiction of truly interesting characters in a moving situation. Tohmaytoh, tohmahtoh.
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