Welcome Me, and Crash
Hello, Jason's friends. This is David, and I'm going to post some stuff here as well. Hope it's not too displeasing.
Okay, so here are my brief thoughts on Crash. We watched it back in May, so I've lost a lot of the details, but the impression has stuck with me. I really, really didn't like it. It seemed trite and preachy and condescending. I'm tired of being told I'm a racist. Susan doesn't totally agree with me, but she said she can sympathize with these feelings at least a little. (Maybe I'm just difficult.)
However, I did kinda like how a lot of the people's lives crashed into each other. It was very unrealistic (when you start out in a city the size of LA with people who lived such different lives in different, distant parts of the city, the odds of them bumping into each other seem really, really slim), but it added an interesting layer to it. However, that concept seems to be on the upswing right now, and I'm sure we're all going to be sick of hearing how closely related we all are in the very near future. (Watch for some new TV shows and probably some movies along these lines - six degrees of separation/Kevin Bacon stuff.)
Maybe a better version is to take the opposite side of this. No impact - just go through life with tunnel vision, remaining completely unaffected no matter what happens. Maybe that would be interesting. But only if you remind everyone that they are racist first...
Okay, so here are my brief thoughts on Crash. We watched it back in May, so I've lost a lot of the details, but the impression has stuck with me. I really, really didn't like it. It seemed trite and preachy and condescending. I'm tired of being told I'm a racist. Susan doesn't totally agree with me, but she said she can sympathize with these feelings at least a little. (Maybe I'm just difficult.)
However, I did kinda like how a lot of the people's lives crashed into each other. It was very unrealistic (when you start out in a city the size of LA with people who lived such different lives in different, distant parts of the city, the odds of them bumping into each other seem really, really slim), but it added an interesting layer to it. However, that concept seems to be on the upswing right now, and I'm sure we're all going to be sick of hearing how closely related we all are in the very near future. (Watch for some new TV shows and probably some movies along these lines - six degrees of separation/Kevin Bacon stuff.)
Maybe a better version is to take the opposite side of this. No impact - just go through life with tunnel vision, remaining completely unaffected no matter what happens. Maybe that would be interesting. But only if you remind everyone that they are racist first...
