In Socal we're all 'crashing'.........

Rating: 10/10 (21 March 2006)

This is a unique time in the history of L.A. We find ourselves roiling and 'crashing' in a stew pot of people very different from ourselves. Most of us are finding that we must, every day, expand our ability to understand and emphasize with the 'other'. Often, our patience gets stretched, sometimes it snaps. We are called upon to make the most difficult moral choices in dealing with each other and through those choices, we find out who we really are ("You think you know who you are?") - IF we choose to look and listen to our own reactions.
That is why "CRASH" is a fable for our times. Paul Haggis is an evocator of possibilities - the multilevel possibilities of our moral choices and their repercussions, as he was in "MILLION DOLLAR BABY". But, this fable of possibilities ("CRASH") contains exaggerated characters, fantasized situations, miracles and madness - as aids to get at the dirty, rotten, unvarnished truth.
Its getting to be an exceedingly complicated world out there folks. It's going to take some heart and guts, introspection and intelligence. Go see "CRASH" with an open mind and a bit of compassion.