Hollywood has been searching for the "true" meaning of life to film it!

Rating: 9/10 (12 December 2004)

For me "Collateral" is just an another movie which focuses on how meaningless and mostly trivial our lives, dreams, expectations and occupations are! It is not only this outline that it tries to display, but also it suggests considering nothing as valuable in real life. So all we see are only obsessions that has to be cared for and to be taken into account! In the film, it is inevitable to see how "Vincent" was obsessed with his job and being "successful" gives him the right to judge the life and underestimate it cruelly. On the other hand, we see "Max" as always struggling to keep his dreams as alive as possible not to disconnect with real life before he gets what he wants from it. Thus, for me, "Max" and "Vincent" are the very same person in the film in terms of understanding the life! They are just living at the different stages of the very same life style. What I criticize is that Hollywood always tries to divide this very same life style into as two different life styles to emphasize on the "right" one and to let us catch a glimpse over what the "wrong" one might bring in the end! Western social understanding has some contradictions in this sense, and in a way, it is implied between the scenes of such films!