Posted by Jay on August 29, 2006, at 15:11:19
In reply to Anybody seen Crash yet?, posted by TexasChic on August 27, 2006, at 17:36:12
> Last night I watched "Finding Neverland" and cried my freaking eyes out for most of the movie, just like I did with "Ray". So I thought my other movie choice "Crash" would be a little less upsetting. Wrong! Of course I'm upset in a different way. I don't even know if I can finish watching this!
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> -TYes...I've watched the movie on cable 3 or 4 times. Yes it is disturbing, but like was said, it shows reality from all sides. What's the name of that former L.A. Police head honcho, from the O.J. Simpson trial, who famously used the 'f' word to describe every 'n' word? How about recently, Mel Gibson? I don't care how flipping drunk he was, you don't say that kind of s*it if you don't mean it.
And look at New Orleans. If that (Katrina) happened in Kennebunkport, everything would be up and running in a few weeks. But, because the folks are stuck with the unfortunate old (well..not really...we are talking maybe 40 years ago they still had signs up for *coloured* people.) racism and being poor, no politician, especially Bush, really gives a crap about them. Michael Moore, the guy who wrote and directed the excellent "Fahrenheit 9/11" (whose company was a producer of "Crash" ). very often talks about 'polite' racism. Sorry for my rant...but not much has changed in the 'racism' dept. in the past 40-50 years...we've just become more "polite" racists.A very pissed-off,
Jay
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