Indeed.
"What is the impulse to make a 'comprehensive' portrait of a city-- to reduce endless social complexity to 90 minutes of celluloid? Just how much artistic hubris, outright cockiness, or postmodern colonial desires are present in the desire to present a complete fiction, a city crowded with so many representative slices of social friction that the various token characters can't help but smash into each other's cars? (And after they crash into each other, they hop out and hurl ethnic slurs at one another.)"
posted by ArcadesProjector at
8:17 PM
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Brilliant.
I still don't understand that metaphor. I really think it was the filmmaker's attempt to justify the disproportionate frequency of automobile accidents in his 90-minute film.
"Do the Right Thing" deserves the accolades that have been showered on "Crash" ... and at least Spike Lee confined it to one block of New York City.
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a. guess, at 3/17/2006 10:16 AM
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