Even our prejudices comes a full circle.

Rating: 7/10 (25 March 2006)

Even our prejudices comes a full circle. As Matt Dillon says in the movie "You think you know who you are... You have no idea!" Give it time, stay open and you can become what you hate or turn into what inspires you.... We are all so closed in our lives. Our reactions to everything outside so prejudiced, hardened and vitriolic, that to see that we are all the same - that we are all hurt and burned by the same thing, that we are all moved and healed by the same touch, that we are all indeed brothers and sisters - we really need a jolt/a deeper wound/an unkinder cut/a leap of faith or a turn for heroism !.. We need to crash into one another to become one again! The opening quotes, paraphrased, I think sums up the whole theme of the movie for me - "It's the sense of touch. In any real city, you walk, you know? You brush past people, people bump into you... Here, nobody touches you. We're always behind this metal and glass. I think we miss that touch SO MUCH, that we crash into each other, just so we can feel something." That being said, I wouldn't go so far as to say this is a great movie. It provides very thin and topical suggestions of the racism and prejudices in modern-day society. This is not a cerebral achievement or for that matter a deeply intellectual movie. Intermingled plots in tenuous circumstances make whatever changes of heart/guard/faith that the characters undergo seem at times circumstantial, rather than something that was deeply provoking and meaningful to their lives. But then again, I think this movie aims to be what it is  A warm message of oneness, a gentle warning against our prejudices- and perhaps nothing more. I don't know if it is really Oscar-worthy. But it's worth a while to watch it and there is definitely something you can take back home with you.