Crash

The one movie I saw in September that's worth mentioning is Crash.  It is beautiful and painful and full of complex characters who are easy to judge at first sight, and then the movie reveals other facets of them that make each person very human.  The only character who seemed entirely beyond redemption was aPersian man who was willing to shoot a man and his 5 year-old daughter and seemed to have no understanding or remorse.  The movie tackles some big issues (race, power and abuse of power, corruption, different cultures clashing) and keeps challenging your initial understanding of scenes.  It's nice to see a movie that isn't full of an ironic detachment and actually dares to evoke emotion in a viewer.  Definitely one to see..

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[Erik]

Funny, I didnt see the persian man as having no understanding or remorse; probably as stressed out as anyone else and threatened too. ?