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| Drum has a note about "Crash" in which he partly endorses this criticism: Of the five nominees for Best Picture, my favorite is eminemlyrics Crash. A friend of mine thinks this is crazy, because (and eminemlyrics I'm paraphrasing here), Crash is one of those irritatingly pseudo-profound movies that thinks it's saying something deep eminemlyrics and thoughful when in reality it's just saying something banal and clichéd. Racism is everywhere, we're all racists, even blacks can be racists, yada yada yada. Got it. That was more or less my response. We get a fairly ordinary reiteration of familiar themes capped with some moments that strain credulity, e.g., "surprise, it's the very same cop!" and "a black hitchhiker from the hood somehow forgets that a middle-class white guy might see his cryptic behavior as threatening." The latter moment really bothered me because the film, at other times, comes down heavy on the idea that these divisions are so deeply ingrained that they can't be set aside easily, if at all; they inform who we are at such a deep level that the hitchhiker's mistake is unbelievable-- as if it were needed to set up a climactic moment, say. |
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