Daily misery

When that shot was fired and eveyone in front of the tv (including me) thought the little girl was killed, there had never been a moment in my life when my heart sunk so low and angry that I just wanted to throw myself into the tv and kill that fool who pulled the trigger. After seeing how the movie had started, I literally felt a glimpse of overjoy that ‘not so many people’ got killed at the end. The true beauty of this gem is that it reflects on everybody else’s life. An innocent girl who believes in fairy tales, a loving father, a Persian family who are US citizens but suffered from the social backlash as a result of 9/11, an african american who thinks that 90% of the white people are scared of the black people, a caucasian who thinks 90% of the black people will end up in jail, an angry wife who suffers from mid-life crisis, a politician, a two police officers…..Its about racism, hate crimes, stupid people under very stressful circumstances, very stupid people under very stressful circumstances, politics, motherly and brotherly love and etc, all in the city we all love to hate - Los Angeles.
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The casts are amazing, written and produced by the same person who wrote Million dollar baby, great director, strong script(some of the lines in there are just brilliant) - How this movie is on limited release I will never know. As a matter of fact, Crash is easily one of the best movie I’ve watched this year, besides from Cinderella Man and Wedding Crasher. The latter is a little biased as Rachel McAdams stars in it but anyway…
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Somehow we are connected to each other, dot by dot, by the people around us. Like Paul Haggis, the director of the movie, said

“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.”

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This is one of those movies that matter.