He tried to portray the interpersonal causes and effects of Los Angeles, a melting pot of immigrants. It is like a huge ring in which everyone is embedded. They work hard but can't help but fall into all kinds of conflicts and entanglements. They are the cause of others, and they are also the cause of others. The fruit of others.
How many kinds of cause and effect are there? It's really amazing. The old man who just came from Iran went to buy guns for self-defense, and the white men who sold guns were very disgusted and impatient when they heard the Middle Eastern accent (he thought they were all Arabs, and they were all disgusting people like "911"!), several If the words don't agree with each other, they will be driven away. The impatient and depressed old man opened a grocery store and couldn’t close the door to find someone to repair the lock. The locksmith is actually a gentle person. It was an "American" who maliciously defrauded him... More unfortunately, the grocery store was robbed a day or two, and the contents disappeared... The old man was furious and wanted to "avenge", he believed that the locksmith caused it. His misfortune "resulted" him with a gun.
The locksmith is a brown, maybe a Hispanic immigrant. He has a gentle personality but always lives in an uneasy environment. He had just moved. His five- or six-year-old daughter had been scared or even afraid to sleep on the bed because of witnessing the shooting. He comforted her by giving her an invisible "fairy cloak" and "no longer be afraid". But they didn't expect another catastrophe to come close to them...
Finally, the gun fired, shocking everyone, including the old Iranian man.
The white policeman played by Dillon has always been hostile to people of color. He brutally insulted and insulted a black director and his wife... Then the humiliating black director had to endure his wife’s resentment and his uncontrollable anger. "Black people should be more stupid." The producers on the set also directly "discussed" with him. He has struggled to this day through his own talents, but found that in many cases there is nowhere to escape. The white policeman was not as tough and cold as it seemed on the surface. He was a dutiful son. His father started a cleaning company in his early years and treated black people kindly. Later, because the government subcontracted the business to immigrants, he was completely bankrupt. I'm always desolate, "I can't urinate" but I don't have any medical insurance. Hearing his father's breathless sound in the dark night, he was equally helpless.
In the film, the policeman fearlessly saved the wife of the black director before a car accident and the vehicle was about to explode. Obviously, he is still a very dedicated policeman. It seems that the director has reached some kind of reconciliation here for the clash between races (crash), but there are more places, more crash is being staged and continuing.
The above is only a small part of the plot in the film. There is also a white area police officer’s car being hijacked by a black man. The black sergeant who has struggled for decades found out the truth but still succumbed. His brother is in another interpersonal relationship. He was killed in the collision, and the person who killed him was a white police officer who had just entered the trade without racial prejudice and inadvertently...
What does Haggis want to express? Obviously he has the skill to weave all these snares, even to say that his express desire is so complicated that the elaborate plot of the film cannot be accommodated. He has a lot of "ambition", not only to tell you what happened, but also to tell you why, he has to go down and explore the causes and effects of such layers and intricacies.
Finally, another crash (car crash) occurred in the film, followed by people's crash (interpersonal crash)... At this time the director slowly moved the camera into the air... There was a heavy snowfall in Los Angeles, and the lights were in the distance. It was down in the flickering dark night, vast and constant.
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