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Originally Posted by elie
and I really can't take seriously directors who don't leave you the choise to decide what you feel about the story and try so hard to impress :
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Bingo. That was my problem with "Crash". These movies are so heavy-handed. You make a good point about the scene in the desert. Although I think it was more than she did a stupid thing; this woman was completely under the control of "the man"--the one who told her she couldn't go to her son's wedding, the ones who assumed she was a criminal, the one who was in control of the wheel. I would have loved a more fleshed-out telling of that story.
But the more I reflect on the movie, the more I realize that I was quite intrigued by the Japanese story. That one just didn't feel connected to the film and was more like a short film attached to the movie. It was definitely the most subtle of the stories.
I'd rather have a movie like Quinceanara or Half Nelson, which subtly portray an extremely moving story and have fully developed characters.