Welcome to hell

Gus 2021-10-18 09:29:03

The Chinese translation of 255 was done. They wrote on the DVD package of the crash, “In the next thirty-six hours, an unexpected car accident has brought together a large group of strangers living in Los Angeles but never met. In just 36 hours, they have completely changed their lives.” As a result, I have met this movie countless times. After seeing these few words, I always regarded it as a cliche disaster movie until I saw it. I just bought Oscar and watched it. While watching it, I was thankful that I didn't miss it. There were not many movies I watched last year, this is a rare favorite.

I have always liked watching group shows, because from a technical point of view, it is difficult to shoot smoothly and naturally. There are so many characters and thousands of heads, which may be messy, so shooting group shows, in my opinion, It is something that tests the structure of the script as well as the skill of the director. Therefore, in recent years, it is rare to see a masterpiece of a group drama. The last time it was "Goswald Manor", many people concentrated on it in a short period of time. The various performances inside, the invigorating feeling unique to the drama is still fresh in my memory, but that was also in 2001, and "Goswald Manor" is to lock people in a big house and do things. And they themselves are different people related to one thing. Compared with connecting unrelated characters in a prosperous big city like Los Angeles, the latter is obviously much more difficult. I saw some people in the media surprised why "Crash" defeated "Broken Arms". The reason that senior film critics found was that "Crash" reflected the problem of racial discrimination in American society, or because it was too long. An "Oscar face". But I feel that Brokeback Mountain is a typical writer's film, which is adapted from a novel. Although Lee's depth of thought is nothing to say, his storytelling method has always been writer's style. This is not bad. It’s just that the reason why film has become an irreplaceable art form for novels, paintings, or music is precisely because its storytelling method is a combination of multiple sensory experiences of audio, video, light, and color. In terms of this point, it is a natural thing for a car crash to win an Oscar in this world, because it is more pure. To explain in simple words, "Crash" does something that only movies can do. I told a good story that only movies can tell, and the story is well told. It has details unique to movies and cannot be replaced by any other art form.

"Others are hell." When I watched this movie, I kept thinking about this sentence. When I saw someone commenting on it, I always emphasized that he reflected the "American racial discrimination problem." When I thought about the problem. This is also the sentence, blacks are the hell of whites, and whites are the hell of blacks, but sometimes, blacks are also the hell of blacks, and film critics are the hell of directors. Looking at all kinds of film reviews seemingly objectively analyzing social issues in the United States, I couldn’t help but sneer. In fact, such a movie only talks about people. There are not too many similarities between people. Whether they are white, black, Middle Eastern, or Spanish, the gap between individuals is not determined by the difference or the same skin color. We, including those who watch movies, are prejudiced, and we are not like that. If we don’t believe it, everyone who has watched the movie will ask ourselves, when the rookie policeman and the black young man are in the same car, When the young black man laughed and started to dig out his pockets, how many people would worry that what the black man drew out was a gun? To be honest, I thought, after seeing the ending, I asked myself, why did I think so? Then I had to admit it frankly, because it was a black man.

What do you think when you see a Chinese girl and a white man together? What do you think when you see a Chinese girl and a black man together? If you say that China does not have so many ethnic problems, so good, what do you think of Xinjiang people? What do you think of people from the Northeast or Shanghai?
You see, people are so complicated. I like this movie because it reflects the complicated human nature, not blacks, whites, and Iraqis. Because it lets me know that I am also complicated and not as pure as some film critics think they are. White people can also be a disadvantaged group, and black people can bully people. When the painful fate of a little policeman’s father is in the hands of a black man, the little white policeman will also be bullied by the black man. It was discovered that men with the same dark skin can also drive high-end cars. Negroes who have succeeded in compromising everything should not be angry when they should be angry, but when they should not be angry, they have checked and died. The young policeman, who thought he could treat others justly, finally shattered his ideals and found that he was no different from the people he despised. The black detective, who wanted to get justice, was ridiculed, "What do you want to do? Do you want to defend a white man?"

The world seems to be an endless cycle, with many problems going around, always returning to the place where it started in the end. How we are born and exist as a person, it seems that we need to pursue the answer throughout our lives. We are always trying to jump out of the definitions and concepts that others impose on us, but at the same time, we use these definitions to prove the definitions that we hate between defining others and consciously or unconsciously. As a black, white, The Arabs, the rich, the poor, the men, and the women may only have so many great transitions in life, but all kinds of shackles are always in the daily casual details, like the air that surrounds us, you can’t escape, this is what The most suffocating thing is that even if you try to find someone who looks the same as you, it's just the appearance. Others are hell, but after watching this movie, I feel so powerful for it. Fascinated by the power of the collision, breaking glass, destroying the world, collision destroying the closed and self-righteous world deep in our hearts, collision throwing us into the air, into the world of others. However, I think, in any case, it is also a kind of fun and dripping. We rushed into the heaven of others, our own hell, even if it is painful and scarred, but it also makes you feel that your soul is alive, because we will meet many people there, but no matter who you meet, you All you encounter are yourself. The other one you don’t know, is yourself. And those souls that have always protected themselves well, and self-proclaimed minds will only slowly age, die, and rot in their own world. They never know that the door of freedom was knocked open in this way.

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Crash quotes

  • Lara: It's a really good cloak.

  • Lucien: You watch the Discovery Channel?

    Anthony: Not a lot.

    Peter: They got some good shit on that channel.

    Lucien: Every night there is a show with somebody shining a little blue light and finding tiny specks of blood splattered on carpets and walls and ceiling fans, bathroom fixtures and special-edition plastic Burger King tray cups. The next thing they show is some stupid redneck in handcuffs who looks absolutely stunned that this is happening to him. Sometimes the redneck is actually WATCHING the Discovery Channel when they break in to arrest him. And he still can't figure out how on earth they could've caught him!

    [pauses]

    Lucien: Psst. Do I look like I wanna be on the Discovery Channel?

    Anthony: No.

    Lucien: Then get the fuck outta my shop.