It deserves to be the best film of this year's Oscar. It has a wider audience than "Brokeback" and more realistic than "Cold Blood". This is a story about you, me, and him. Everyone can find their own shadow. It is complicated and profound, with race, good and evil, religion, perversion, redemption, violence, tolerance, love, marriage, deception, affection, separation, understanding, and coincidence. Some are inevitable, some cannot be explained, some can be explained, some are floating on the water, and some are deeply hidden. If "Broken Back" is a poem, then Crash is a novel: in plain or even vulgar language, the plot characters are crisscrossed and crisscrossed like lasagna, regardless of each other, and miraculously in the chaotic relationship between the constant and the chaotic. Generally reached a delicate balance. This seems to be our world, always swaying and clashing in order and chaos.
I don't understand why Matt Dillon was nominated for best actor, but he did not actually show the complexity and inner disputes of this character. In contrast, Heath Ledger of Brokeback is much better than him, but it's a pity that he lost in the subject matter. The other black male characters in the film are pretty good, especially as a Buddhist director, his facial expressions and eyes are first-rate, and the tranquility and peace conceal the sadness and despair and redemption that cannot be contained.
Race is a theme deliberately highlighted in the film. Whites, blacks, Indians, Hispanics, Asians, and Persians (mistaken as Arabs) have appeared on the stage, but they are by no means singing the main theme of harmony. No one has reached a true understanding with the non-self ethnic group, and all interactions or interactions ended in noisy failure, hopelessness, illness and death. The little white policeman seemed to be about to reach but accidentally killed a little black bastard who had been well-intentioned. The melody of destiny seems to favor this funny, absurd but helpless note the most. Even within a certain ethnic group, it is full of deceptive barriers and conflicts: Iranian father and daughter, black director couple and two black gangsters, black police officer and mother, white official couple.
The background of the story is LA. This metropolis which represents desire, luxury and noisy has repeatedly staged black-and-white conflicts and riots. It is believed that certain plots in the movie directly refer to this theme. But it is definitely not only on this level, because it is not only a black-and-white film, but also mixed with brown, red, yellow, etc., in the coincidence and accident of fate, I don’t know whether it turns into the last snow at the end of the film, dots of pure white. It combines all the colors in one but is independent and pure without a trace of impurities.
People always say that the United States is a melting pot, but now I think it's too superficial. Is the integration between races and nationalities that easy? Paul Simon sang America in the 1960s. No one can answer where America is. I admire the old Jewish priest in New York in Angels in America saying "You grow up here in this strange place, in the melting pot where nothing melted." to the Jewish children and grandchildren. It seems that this country is like a tempting and delicious pizza, but bacon is still cured meat, salami is still sausage, green pepper is still green pepper, cheese is still cheese, and they are never mixed.
In fact, which country is not the same? This era is an era of publicity, everyone will inevitably collide with others when they spread their wings. How to keep the self while keeping the heart open is a difficult problem. Nation will become a grand theme in the future, and we will all be involved helplessly.
A Tang also produced a movie with a similar motif a few years ago. The life of the characters is crisscrossed, called Magnolia, but there is not much praise. The main reason is that the plot is too procrastinated and trivial to be as clear and smooth as Crash. It seems that I can't be too monk. I want to learn from Lao Tzu and turn around with only 5,000 words. It is absolutely cool! But I still have to write papers and edit textbooks. It is always so helpless to return to the real world from a small screen.
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