Crash isn't a car, it's human nature

Darren 2022-04-22 07:01:02

3:27 2013-8-25 It

wasn't a car that crashed on Sunday, it was

a quiet female voice like Guangling San at the end of a movie about human nature, wanting to warm the icy humanity of winter. The movie starts and ends with a fascinating crash scene, showing us that the conflict between human nature may never end, but we can still choose to believe in the brilliance of human nature, and we must not lose faith in human nature.

Perhaps, in real life, the crash is not a car, but the essence of human beings in the conflict between human nature, as in Confucianism, the beginning of human beings, the nature is good.

24 hours after the car crash, the director spent nearly 100 minutes to describe the 24 hours in which the different lives that were originally crisscrossed were wonderfully connected because of repeated crashes.

Because the film was made in 2005, and I only watched it in 13 years, so I will not write traditional film reviews, because the writers who wrote the words in the front are all wonderful enough, so I will give this "Crash" from another angle. " to annotate.

Crash=C.ar+R.ace+A.ppearance+S.ave+H.uman
Crash = Car + Race + Appearance + Redemption + Humanity

1, Car.

Since the title of the movie is crash, then car must be an inexorable The missing carrier, from the Asian woman at the beginning of the crash with the girlfriend of the black police officer until the end of the movie is still another crash scene to end the whole movie.

In the repeated collisions, the collision is no longer a car, but a conflict of human nature. Only in the conflict will people reveal the most primitive true self. It is a painful thing to face such an ugly self, but it depends on your belief. In the beginning, people are either good or evil.

2. Race. Race

The theme of the entire movie is obviously America's famous and fucking problem, racism. Just like I read Edward's "American X-Files" in the past, it is also about the racial discrimination of black and white people in the United States. Of course, in the crash, it is not only the issue of black and white race, but the issue of racial discrimination in the whole world. , because there is such a large statue of the Statue of Liberty in New York, USA, I would be sorry for the Statue of Liberty if there is no global racial discrimination issue.

Of course, what is commendable is that excellent movies about racial discrimination generally do not have a perfect ending. Unlike some movies, at the end of the movie, they preach the freedom of the Statue of Liberty. Excellent movies leave many questions. or tragic thought provoking.

For example, "American X-Files" ended with a tragedy where a black kid shot a white kid, and the crash ended with another crash.

In the country of the US stock market, the issue of racial discrimination seems to be a never-ending problem. Of course, if the problem is serious, it will be fucked. It seems to be traced back to the era of Lincoln's liberation of black slaves, and the racial issue of black and white people surfaced, and then later Martin Luther King's "I have a dream black speech" officially pulled this black and white racial discrimination issue to the opposite side. , and later, terrorists in the Middle East like bin Laden unintentionally contributed to the problem of racial discrimination in the United States, so the problem of black and white racial discrimination in the United States has successfully transitioned into the problem of racial discrimination in the Middle East.

Of course, this is just a joke. Anyway, in a country with such a Statue of Liberty, there are not many racial issues that can't be justified.

3. Appearance.

The issue of appearance is actually related to the issue of race. For example, when the Persian boss went to buy a gun at the beginning, he was mistaken for bin Laden's compatriot, and the black locksmith was born unfriendly and acquired a lot of body. After a few tattoos, he was mistaken for a newly released prisoner.

As an aside, Chinese people were often discriminated against in the United States before 1997. When Leehom Wang had a song, he made fun of his identity as a Chinaman. Therefore, the problem of discrimination is a problem in a country with so many different races. It is impossible to stop, so the director will stage another crash at the end.

4, save. Redemption

Redemption is the question explored in the whole film, save yourself, self-redemption.

In the 24 hours of the crash, everyone paid a price, heavy or wonderful. Real life is always unfair, so the price paid and the redemption gained are not equal.

What the black police officer finally found was the cold corpse of the gangster’s younger brother and the complete disappointment of his mother; the black director finally found his love for his wife, and the black wife regained his confidence in human nature; the Persian boss found his innermost heart. Angel, rekindle hope for this life or humanity; and one of the black gangsters is returning to the trajectory of life and regaining the belief that human beings are created equal.

Of course, real life is always full of sorrows and sorrows, the other black gangster is not so lucky, his fate is to expose the wilderness, and the white police officer has no idea what to do after killing the black gangster, I think he will be forever Take the blame of conscience.

What puzzled me a bit was the black locksmith, because the director didn't clearly explain whether he smashed the Persian owner's store, so after his daughter helped him block a fake bullet, he also fell into deep thought. My guess is that he thought deeply about how grateful he was for his daughter's loss and recovery.

5. If Human

says save, redemption is the question explored by the whole film, then human nature is the answer to this question. However, the director focuses on the exploration of depicting the problem, and the answer to human nature is almost at the end of the film. In the face of the sudden death of his younger brother, the police officer looking for the answer to human nature may be a never-ending time travel. Everyone's chosen belief.

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Extended Reading
  • Josefa 2022-03-23 09:01:12

    "Crash" (2004) is a terrible film because very few American films try to explore racism. Although the intention is good, the film does not break away from a melancholy plot. This melancholy is rooted in the desperate lives of wealthy whites in the suburbs, ambitious African-American police officers, Persian businessmen, and angry street wanderers. Not only did these people not show any psychological or intellectual complexity, but it is unreasonable to explain racism simply with a film describing individual loneliness, because "Crash" did not point out the powerful forces behind American racism. Economic and political power. The ending of the film is suggestive: a group of released Asian immigrants walks helplessly on the streets of New York, implying that although the protagonist of the film has tried his best to fight for justice, he has not brought any hope for the future of these unnamed aliens.

  • Olin 2021-10-20 19:00:25

    It feels a bit too fake.

Crash quotes

  • Flanagan: Actually, we were thinking of you until we saw that. It's your brothers file. Twenty something years old and already three felonys. Three Strikes Law, the kid's going away for life for stealing a car. Christ, that's a shitty law. There's a warrant in there. But still, he had every opportunity you had. Fucking black people, huh?

    Graham: So, uh... all I need to do to make this disappear is to frame a potentially innocent man.

    Flanagan: What are you? The fucking Defender of All Things White? We're talking about a white that shot three black men and you're arguing with me, that maybe we're not being "fair" to him? You know, what? Maybe you're right. Maybe you're right. Maybe Lewis did provoke this. Maybe he got exactly what was coming to him. Or, maybe, stoned or not, being a black man in the valley was enough to get him killed. There was no one there to see who shot first, so there is no way way to know. Which means, we could get this wrong. Maybe that's what happened with your brother. Maybe we got it wrong. Maybe Lewis isn't the only one who deserves the benefit of the doubt. You're the one closest to all this. You need to tell us. What does your gut tell you?

  • Flanagan: The D.A's squad loses its lead investigator next month. Rick is quite adamant that his replacement be a person of color. It's a high profile position, and he wants to send the right message to the community.

    Graham: And the right message is look at this Black Boy I bought?