Amazing Movie

Rating: 8/10 (22 December 2005)

This is a lovely roller-coaster, without gore and blood that I don't want to see in such movies. Quite clean, but not for children.
I usually find crime thrillers tiring to the boot, but this one is different. Racism exists, not in people, not in countries but in situations. One cannot pin down a person as a racist.
The lines between the racist and the victim are blurred and reversed in society. This movie is a valuable documentation of the stress associated with immigrant issues: willful and forced ones.
A myriad of situations are exposed: unintentional racism, harmless racism, spontaneous racism etc. Hate crimes are just one area, other areas are diversity policies, passing insults.
Another facet exposed by the movie is how deeply racist the victims themselves are. How they almost. bring doom on their own worlds by assuming too much in their conditioning and not letting their hearts do the talking.
This is a timely movie. It shows how attempts to eliminate racism have created problems for people on both sides of the divide. It also brings out some smaller issues, for gliding moments: like the inability of HMOs to serve the truly sick. The insensitivity & busy-ness of health care providers to provide genuine health care as compared to 100 patient/hour assembly line care.
There are lessons for everyone in this movie. Watch it please!