Perpetual War
There is very little that is perfect in this world. Very little that is black or white. Its always a constant struggle to decide whats right and wrong, especially so if the final outcome has a direct bearing on us. Its tough to be all principled and proper at those times and those are times that most often we give in to social prejudices. Crash is a movie that captures this to the hilt and portrays to great effect. Intertwined lives of the suburban culture wherein people "crash" into each other for just a few seconds and yet manage to alter the pysche of the people whom they interact with. And i myself have seen it manifest so many times in my life that there was no way in which i could not sympathise with the characters. The cop who saves a black man from a racially triggered incident, and yet, when faced with a situation where he fears for his own life, he goes ahead and gives into this very prejudice that he had fought for. How does he live with his own conscience after that? Paul Haggis gives no answers, he just poses questions for us to decipher and reflect on. None of the incidents that are featured in the movie were important enough to ever make the headlines and therein lies the irony of the entire situation, that in all probability all these small incidents are the worst manifestations of these prejudices since the people who live with them, in all probability would go ahead and condemn a racially motivated massacre, but would not know that there is some part of them which probably has the same instincts. The performances are adept without taking away the sheen from the theme of the movie which is the core of the film.This movie could so easily have been made in the Indian context, given the fact that while US is still coming to terms with these issues, the Indian culture has been facing them since time immemorial. And still suffering because of it too, I might add. A movie definitely worth watching.
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posted by Nitish @ 4:24 AM
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