Lost touch
From an interview with director Paul Haggis about the film Crash (I’ve waited for so long for this movie to open):
It’s an odd life we live in Los Angeles, a city that uses freeways and wide boulevards to divide people by race and class. We spend most of our time encased in metal and glass; in our homes, our cars, at work. Unlike any real city, we only walk where “it’s safe”-those outdoor malls and ersatz city blocks we’ve created to feel like we’re still part of humanity, if only humanity could afford to shop where we do. We no longer truly feel the touch of strangers as we brush past them on the street.
This sort of subtle human touch is something I am going to miss so badly should I leave this cuddly little city called Lincoln in the near future. Its a rarity in many towns I can tell you. Lincolnians dont just brush past people, we stop and say hi and bug you with our general point of view on how f*** up the world is before we let you go.
I am a pretty laid back guy with a big heart for placidity. Lincoln fits that pretty well actually. We just need more mountains and lakes and waterfalls and cliffs.
We do have tornado….wait that’s a totally different thing.
