Crash

"You think you know who you are. You have no idea."


"Crash" is an amazing movie and well deserving of the Best Picture Oscar it received last night.
Haven't seen it? Rent it. Watch it with people and talk about it afterward.
It's raw and offensive in a continual stream of politically incorrect conversations and interactions. Prejudices come to the surface when characters collide all within 48 hours in L.A. More than a dozen characters are tied together in a series of crashes, whether it's physical or emotional. The film is brutally and beautifully honest in how it reveals the dark corners in the hearts of ordinary people.


"It's the sense of touch. In any real city, you walk, you know? You brush past people, people bump into you. In L.A., nobody touches you. We're always behind this metal and glass. I think we miss that touch so much, that we crash into each other, just so we can feel something."


(And even though I haven't seen "Capote" yet, I'm confident that Philip Seymour Hoffman deserved the Best Actor award for his performance. Also, I didn't realize how hard it is out here for a pimp.)