For Me There Is But One CRASH
Paul Haggis' 2004 film Crash is a great example of a shitty movie. It makes a big deal about examining modern day bigotry in the U S of A. The tone is ponderous. Its conceits are shallow. The film is a dry hollow husk for anyone with any real life experience. For people who have never had to think about these things, Crash may seem like an epiphany.
Less than 10 years before Haggis' film, David Cronenberg made a movie with the same title CRASH. I watched it again over the weekend and was truly taken with it. I bet people who love Haggis' film would walk out during the first ten minutes of Cronenberg's picture. It shows you stuff and then leaves it all up to the viewer. The latter Crash lectures us without having anything to say.
I prefer being presented with information and then making up my own mind. I don't like people telling me what to think.
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Less than 10 years before Haggis' film, David Cronenberg made a movie with the same title CRASH. I watched it again over the weekend and was truly taken with it. I bet people who love Haggis' film would walk out during the first ten minutes of Cronenberg's picture. It shows you stuff and then leaves it all up to the viewer. The latter Crash lectures us without having anything to say.
I prefer being presented with information and then making up my own mind. I don't like people telling me what to think.
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CLIP
SISKEL AND EBERT REVIEW
MAKING OF
posted by Bob Moricz at 9:21 AM
1 Comments:
Leave it to a goddamn Scientologist to ruin a perfectly good title.Also note that Ted Turner tried to prevent this film from being distributed after a private screening prior to it's release.Amazingly it played on the big screen in my home town and I recall afterwards wanting to run my car into someone and jerk off.
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