Our encounters went back and forth within six people.

Elmo 2022-04-22 07:01:02

Yesterday, I dug out the backlog of crashes that I hadn't watched for three years, and read it. There was a very strong vibration in my heart. This vibration urges me to sit here, in a gesture of wanting to speak, to recall those small details.

This is actually a bit difficult for me. Because my perception of movies is always slow and superficial.

See another title bump effect in translation. Suddenly want to laugh. I didn't preview the outline of the story, and I didn't like to predict the deconstruction. I also think maybe it's another series of things about a group of people triggered by a crash.
Then see yesterday's subtitles. The memory breaks open and pours fragments of the past into it.

Scene by scene, several people seem to be unrelated to walking on a road they don't know about, being dragged by the thread of fate. Although the director said that this film is not about racial issues, but among these many incidents, race is undoubtedly the biggest clue. One ring, one ring, one person deducting one person. It suddenly occurred to me that all people in this world can often find a relationship within the six people who are related to us.

What fascinates me more about this movie is its narrative structure. Just like I watched Vanish Binnie's "Half a Liar" last year. The protagonists revealed will not be irrelevant to anyone.

Movies magnify things outside of life, magnify the exposure of emotions, and combine all the coincidences that can be used. If any one person is staggered here, the chain will break a hole, and a complete network cannot be connected in series.

Apply many assumptions. If those plots were denied one by one, the director's wife was not rescued successfully, or the little girl was shot and killed, will the level of the crash be more tragic.

She would leave with anger at the white man, with the humiliation that came with it. will not forgive. Can't hear forgiveness, or from husband, I love you.
She will be saddened by her father's deceit. won't believe it. He has become a real little angel in people's beliefs, but he can't become the angel of salvation for the Persians. How much her father who repaired the locks would regret the good-natured lie. But it's all good intentions, but it can't be replaced by perfection.

It will also add a layer of cruelty to reality.

It's just that these are just assumptions.


However, the film does have a layer of sadness. Final shot. I thought it wouldn't happen. I just thought that this rookie police officer was too scared, but he was not afraid of killing black people by mistake.
This was the last thing he wanted to see. Either by mistake, or black people.
But the most ironic thing is that this black man is not malicious.
Nothing but distrust. No matter how racially unbiased the little cop thought he was. It's like no matter how relaxed we are about the things that the world says a lot, but once it comes to ourselves, we turn the corner. become vulnerable and biased.

This is also the vulnerability and prejudice in human nature.
I want to protect my heart. Dumbfounded only believe in himself.

After the gunshots killed people. The screen switches back to the normal timeline. Suddenly, it became clear in my consciousness that this person was the younger brother that the black policeman was looking for.
And then I would think that the principles he gave up for seemed so comical in such an ending. He can leave the rich and greedy behind. Only can not let go of brotherhood. But reality hit him hard. His perseverance, and his giving up, seemed so weak. It was completely shattered with a single shot.
He never told his mother the truth, and let her immerse herself in subtle comfort to resist the powerful pain of bereavement.
Nor did he find out the truth.

There are others. There is goodness in their human nature, but also the most primitive sin. Probably no one can avoid it.
Human nature has a bad and blunt side, but after twists and turns, it has a slightly awe-inspiring kindness, and is displayed in front of people.
But how long does it take for people walking in reality to smooth out the edges and corners of the hard outer wall that they thought they were strong when they were young, expose the tenderness of the inner core, experience repeated beatings, and then wrap it again with a layer of blood-stained assimilation .
Later, I have to admit that it was originally like this. I just don't want to believe it, it's just me at that time.
People can not escape from doing wrong. This comforting rhetoric requires a lot of impact in life to usher in an earth-shaking turning point.


However, he suddenly remembered the repeated sentences in the middle of the night.
There is nothing in life to rely on except yourself. Not forever, and not believing.

There are no permanent enemies. Of course, there are no permanent friends.
There will probably be no permanent hostility. It is true that there is no eternal peace.
The word forever is an extravagant hope of modern people.

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Extended Reading
  • Tyrel 2021-10-20 19:00:20

    Great work. When I watched it again, I was still moved. The man and the woman who rushed into the car turned back and wept in tears. He hugged his father for the little girl, and his father cried in despair. The bright lights of this city are on, the car lights in the rain, the wooden statues in the hands of the black boys that roll down. To all doubts, quarrels, cowardice, love. pay tribute.

  • Laverne 2022-03-25 09:01:05

    The abuse of the heart is strong enough, and the human traces are too heavy. Because this is a movie, the ending will not be cruel. The narrative method is similar to "Tongtian Tower". (Damn the subtitles really delay things)

Crash quotes

  • Officer Hanson: Hey. Maybe they didn't tell you, but I've been reassigned.

    Officer Ryan: Yeah, they told me. I just wanted to say good luck and it was good riding with you.

    Officer Hanson: You too.

    Officer Ryan: Wait 'till you've been on the job a few more years. Look at me.

    Officer Hanson: Yeah.

    Officer Ryan: Look at me. Wait 'till you've been doing it a little longer.

  • Officer Hanson: Radio cheque two one L two three.

    Officer #1: Two one L two three. I'm hearing strange noises from your car.

    Officer #2: Likewise, twenty one, L. Is your mic open by any chance?