Roller-coaster of emotions

Rating: 10/10 (23 May 2005)

A totally successful combination of editing, acting, soundtrack, and timing. This film had me hooked from the opening credits. Having just returned from Los Angleles, I found this film terrifically personal. It made me think of the hazards of life, the assumptions we make, the politics of fear, the loss of innocence and the need for affection and love. The level of tension and the bread-down of trust was omnipresent. Black is not white, there seemed to be few shades of gray. The land of the free is the land of insecurity and fear combined with an incredible superiority complex. What can happen to a society like this ? I think it was brave tackle this subject through several inter-related vignettes. I did not leave the cinema smiling...and I was thinking about what I had experienced in LA through he eyes of Canadian director Paul Higgis. It is definitely an outsiders take on the complexities of a huge American (read USA) city. Great performances but all around but a stand-out by Terrence Dashon Howard. I loved it. Go see it.