Crash by Paul Haggis

[Blongkoy]

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Paul Haggis (Leaving Las Vegas) is trying to teach us in "Crash" how to write a movie without writing it.

"Crash" is a snippet of everyday Los Angeles life. If it were in Cebuano/Visayan and retitled accordingly, it would have been "Aburido."

It has all the trademarks of a Haggis independent: it looks like done in 16mm (like Leaving Las Vegas), improvisational, dramatic but quick, frank in the use of street language, gritty, probing and does not spoon-feed.

"Crash" may not be a great movie like "Leaving Las Vegas". But it has all the sentimental sweetness of grit and abandon. We feel re-freshed at the end but burdened with a heavy heart.

[r/brey]

Blongkoy, you've got Paul Haggis mixed up with British auteur Mike Figgis. Figgis was responsible for Leaving Las Vegas(that movie crushed my heart). Figgis is more into weird useless films now though. Paul Haggis wrote last year's best picture in the Oscars, Million Dollar Baby. just trying to clear that up, their names are confusing though so i know where ur coming from.

anyway, Crash rocked. the ending was so powerful. great pay-offs. cinematography was great, dark, very current Clint Eastwood.

[Blongkoy]

Blongkoy, you've got Paul Haggis mixed up with British auteur Mike Figgis. Figgis was responsible for Leaving Las Vegas(that movie crushed my heart). Figgis is more into weird useless films now though. Paul Haggis wrote last year's best picture in the Oscars, Million Dollar Baby. just trying to clear that up, their names are confusing though so i know where ur coming from.

anyway, Crash rocked. the ending was so powerful. great pay-offs. cinematography was great, dark, very current Clint Eastwood.

r/brey,

I stand corrected. Indeed you are one of the few I know who can well remember from memory. And I do not have any excuse for my faltering own.

[MrBiddle]

great pay-offs.

Thought these things didn't matter to you, Land

[r/brey]

depends on the script i guess. i dunno. hehehe

[simoen]

This is one powerful movie. From the dialogues to the plot to the characters themselves, it all wonderfully intertwined. It's leaves a lasting impact about racism. A definite MUST-SEE!!!!

[brownprose]

"Crash" is Academy's Best Picture in 2005 which starred Sandra Bullock, Don Cheadle, Matt Dillon, Jennifer Esposito and William Fichtner. I didn't get the chance to see the film when it was shown here, but a friend tells me it's really a moving film. Been looking around in video shops lately, but couldn't find any copy for rent or sale. The bootleg shops don't have them either.

If you've seen it...What do you think about it? Was it really worth the Oscar's?

By the way, if you can pm me where to buy it, would appreciate it.

[brownprose]

up lang...

[slakker]

very nice movie...

[ygen]

overrated... extremely manipulative and simplistic morality lesson...