Crash Into Me, Yeah.
If you haven't seen last year's film "Crash," I highly recommend it. It's a gritty, no bullshit story which explores the current state of race relations in the United States. There are no good guys, and nobody comes out clean.
One of my friends disagrees:
Saw Crash last night- hated it. It was either so stupidly cliché or the most sickeningly anti-white racist crap I have ever seen. The only potential bright spot, Don Cheadle, had such a small part it didn't help much. I'm guessing I'm the minority on this one (no pun intended), as the critics or whatever also gave decent reviews to what I rank as the second worst movie of all time- The Cooler. Even Gods and Heroes wasn't this bad. Colors- now that was a good movie about LA, racism, bad cops, etc., (the same storyline as Crash), and it was done in the effin 80's. Crash was about as cutting edge
as a movie about how racially tense Atlanta was in 1860. Yeah, we get it. The white characters were so predictably upper class evil- was this payback for all the bad stereotypes of minorities over the years? Goebbels would have been proud of this one.
I pointed out that I don't get how anyone could call it "anti-white" when it is pretty much equal opportunity in its portrayal of races. His response:
The villains were:
Matt Dillon, the sexually assaulting bad racist copBrendan Fraser, the wealthy DA who wants to use Don Cheadle for his own PR crap
Sandra Bullock, the paranoid wealthy DA's wife
Tony Danza, the bad racist producer who manipulates the black man into stereotypical roles against his will
Ryan Phillipe, Dillons first partner, the naive young cop who ultimately kills an innocent black man and dumps his body
In general, by trying to show how "racist" we all are at heart, it was in fact just that- playing upon the stupidest stereotypes ever. All that was left out was actually showing the Korean's shop in da hood, or a star of david around Tony Danza's neck to show that he was in fact the jewish producer. If this show is to "teach" us about racism, it was intended for third graders in 1986. Boo.
Discuss.
posted by Abe at 10/20/2005 01:10:00 PM
4 Comments:
Watched this movie about a month ago, excellent.
Haven't seen the movie, but the comments under question just HAVE to be from Reno's own JS. The rhetoric strums my memory chords.
I HEART YARI FILM GROUP (makers of Crash)
I loved this movie, and also have a very good friend who thought that it was "anti - white", badly stereotypical, and cliche. I was surprised, and thought about it a lot since her remarks about it. The conclusion that i came to is this: you will find in this movie what you are looking for.
And so is life.
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