The Movie "Crash"

Discussion in 'Philosophy' started by new_age_hippy, Apr 7, 2007.

  1. I'm speaking of the one with Brendan Fraser, Ludacris, etc. I saw the yesterday. One of the most profound movies I've ever seen concerning humanity and why we treat each other the way we do. Any others seen it? Thoughts? Rants/raves?
     
  2. I really loved it too.

    **spoiler warning**

    When they old man tries to shoot the gun and the little girl jumped in the way, i remember shouting out in the theater "oh no!"

    I don't know why, but the film really pulled me in, I was engrossed. I agree with you, that it represents a really profound sentiment.

    I forgot a lot of what happens... maybe i'll give it a download
     
  3. ^When that scene happened I actually drew in a large breath, put my hand over my mouth and started crying all in about 2.3 seconds.
     
  4. I really liked Crash too. Way to go local boy Paul.
     
  5. Why did the good blonde cop have to shoot that man's brother in the car in the end? To teach him what the bad cop said in the beginning, hinting towards you'll always end up racially discriminating eventually? That's the only scene the confused me. Or maybe it was because his brother (the dectective) got rid of his warrants and kept him on the street which resulted in it. Or maybe both.
     
  6. I must have carried that movie with me days after seeing it, it's a really well developed and inpiration film. I saw it with around 15 people and we all thought the same about it. Hell I remember writing a paper on it in high school and it was good if i do say so myself :cool: . Maybe i watch it again sometime.
     
  7. Just reality. The movie showed that nobody's 100% bad, and similarly nobody's 100% good. People will always do what they think will benefit them most in the long run.
     
  8. it was very good movie. It makes you think about the world around you, the people we assoicate ourselves as well as ourself. Until that movie i didnt realise how racist and small minded the society still is. It was a very good. Actors were on point as well.
     
  9. Yeah that movie was great made me really think about others and the fact that i need to treat others carefully, you never know whats going on when I dont see them, they might have some horrible thing happen to them and I'm making a joke about exactly that thing, after that movie I definately changed, I guess you could say I became. "nicer"

    May your trail be easy and your smoke glorious

    Big Steve.
     
  10. I loved that movie. I remember the first time I saw it I was baked out of my mind and for the first 30 minutes of the movie I thought I was watching something completely different. When I figured out it wasn't the right movie, it didn't matter, I was hooked.

    Definitely one of those movies that leaves you drained at the end... kinda like Requiem for a Dream (also an amazing film)...
     
  11. the film was pretentious and self concious oscar bait... paul haggis doesn't know how to be subtle. the film is crap.

    see david cronenberg's crash, a real masterpiece.
     
  12. a definite tear jerker, 2 thumbs up
     
  13. Now that film was quite silly. I'm very familiar with the fetish lifestyle and saw this movie around 4 years ago, and I can say 1)It didn't make good wank material 2)Had a bad story line 3)Simply tried to get by on the sexual aspect, which it didn't.
     
  14. To teach the impact that biggotry has in america, and overall. To teach how much of an impact biggotry has on daily life.

    you may not know it, but alot of people claim to be not racist but hold biggot thoughts.
     

  15. I didn't think it was profound; I thought it was boring. The ideas were so hackneyed, and the film felt self-important. It probably had the worst interlocking story I've ever seen (Short Cuts, Magnolia, 21 grams are all superior). I have friends who really liked the film, but I'm just too literate for that brand of patronizing Lifetime bullshit (makes me sound like a prigg, which I'm not). I haven't really seen any "profound" movies lately, and I've sort of come to the conclusion that literature is the best medium for that sort of experience.
     
  16. If you want a movie about the human experience, rent The Holy Mountain. It's the closest movie I've seen to being human itself.
     

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