food for thought

Rating: 10/10 (23 November 2012)

This movie is definitely not a watch-and-forget kind of thing. It gets you thinking. It's not actually about the story itself but about what stands behind it, not about what's happening, but about why it is happening. All the separate shorelines evolve in a parable kind of way sometimes balancing on the line between being very real and almost caricature like which yet makes them even more true to life. Some dialogs make you laugh while others bring you on the verge of tears, but this is what life is about, right? Of course, the movie can not escape exaggerating at times, going about the same old thing all over again, but it does not make it boring, it just adds more angles. The question of racism in the modern society is thoroughly examined in the film, but you can't help but start to think about other problems of the day, as everything is interconnected in life. Just like in this movie. People crash into each other and change each others' lives the way they could never imagine. The development of the story is logical enough yet one of the micro stories left me unsatisfied (well it's kind of turned out to be one of the central ones). Perhaps I'm just reading too much into it, or not everything is so simple. Some messages delivered are quite controversial, yet it all depends on the way you read them. This movie is not a light watch, but I would recommend it to those who like it when movies get under their skin and won't let go easily. So if you're up to wake up at 3 am and ask yourself why-questions, you found your movie.