Racial prejudice

Rating: 9/10 (11 May 2005)

The gem of this film is the dialogue. All characters speak their own languages so naturally, you won't find a single moment that they are actors talking out of a script.
This is a film about racial tension in America, and more specifically, in the LA area. It's about prejudice against races other than one's own. In order to make all these happen in a less than two hour movie, serendipity has to be the norm to gather white, black, latino, Asian, mideastern all together in a story during a 36 hours period. So it might not make any sense when all these characters always run into each other, but you would not have time to question that during the film, because you will be completely captured by racial conflicts and the emotion they provoked. Will you get offended? Probably so. Will you find some traits of yourself in those characters? More than likely.
None of those characters in the film are perfect, and more or less they are prejudicial against others. I think that most people in real life are this way. Some people are more this way than others. Some people are more reluctant to admit than others. Some people act upon those prejudices more than others. That's the reality in our society and that's why I like this film because it doesn't cover up the feelings of those characters with political correctness, and the film let those characters speak their minds. Sometimes, it's a shocking to hear the truth.