I haven't written a film review in good while. Funny as I expected my next one to be the Amazing Superman.
Seems I was wrong. tonight it's Crash.
I'm sort of stunned, and shocked right now that I can't quite process all the things I wish to write about. My head is all over the place, and I think that is the mark of an excellent film.
I think the entire Brokeback phenom did a lot to discredit this film. yes, it was a good film, yes the performances were good, but I don't remember finishing that film thinking that I was so deeply profoundly moved. ...I was entertained, I enjoyed myself,....but I didn't think it was as great as people said it was. So when oscar time rolled around people were saying that Crash one the Oscar because they didn't want the gay movie to win.
But, seriously, Crash is a incredible movie. I can entirely get behind it winning the Oscar. It has great ensemble cast. everyone in it gives an entirely gut wrenching performance. My favorite storyline depicted in the image above. Michael Pe�a's performance just hit me square in the heart.
What's amazing each of these character studies is that every character is so deep. Even the ones you think are simple and one dementional. ....they all prove you wrong. they all are complex and flawed and follow a full range of emotions. and no one is perfect, and everyone fucks up. .....and sometimes you will do or say something to someone without thinking and that action affects them so deeply. ....and maybe you were angry and depressed about your life and just said something or did something to someone just to feel better about yourself. Shouted an obcenity, told a rasist joke...
It's quite interesting that Becky and I watched this movie this evening.
Tonight we decided to walk to my favorite downtown restaurant for dinner. We got there about 9ish, had a yummy meal and just before 10 we left. We decided with it being a nice night we would take a bit of a walk, walk up main street a ways, window shop...check out the lamps Becky likes and walk up to the tiny gallery where my painting will be shown and see if it was hung yet. It wasn't. ...being that we were right there we walked to the end of the block to check out the lovely store on the end that is sadly going out of business.
As we stood there on the corner, just blocks from Carrie's house, I decided to give her a call and see if she was home, maybe we could walk over and see her room newly painted.
As I stood there for a minute on my cell phone, ...some red neck from across the way, I don't know where it came from it didn't seem too close, started shouting things at us.
And it wasn't a "hey baby" kind of thing. ....this red neck asshole and the woman he was with basicly started calling us whores!
Now, we were dressed in jeans and sweatshirts. um....when you think whore attire, that is EXACTLY what springs to mind.
They started shouting things like how we had to move along and how this wasn't Chicago....and we were like, What the fuck! Who do you think you are? Where do you get off?
I was really offended. And as we eventually started to make our way back I started thinking, wait a minute, if we were 2 men walking out at night in jeans and sweatshirts,....we would be 2 guys out walking, but because we were women standing on a street corner, that instantly made us whores! What is wrong with people?
that is entirely the vibe of this thing. Sometimes the simplist comment or gesture (or of course,...a big one) can have such an impact on someone that you wouldn't believe.
maybe your sitting on your porch having a couple of beers with nasty wife...and you look up and see 2 young girls walking down the street window shopping. ...and maybe it makes you feel better about yourselves to have laugh at those 2 girls,...and why not call them whores. you're safe on your porch, what can they do? ....they walk away, you laugh and have another beer. Do you realize that for the rest of the night those girls were offended by your rude ignorant comments?
It's the Karmic law of energy. The best discription of karma I've read explained it as posive and negative energy. When you say mean things, you send negative energy out into the world, the person affect by that negative energy carries it with them and the will react negatively to someone else. ....but if you can take that negative energy and react in a positive way, it changes forms and that bit of negative energy will no longer be around to affect someone.
if you do negative things negative energy will surround you and one day it will come back to you. ....if you do good things, and create positive energy, you will have good things come your way.
it's not punishment, or retrobution, it's cause and affect.
2:07 a.m. - July 12, 2006
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