Interesting to see scenes of life through the eyes of LA

Rating: Null/10 (1 September 2009)

I thought it was a film intended to move towards a big climax which it did, so in that way it was a good allegory for the human experience in the modern world-people are always racing towards something or away from something-but nobody is stationary for very long, and things are always peaking and then falling back again. I liked the characters even though I didn't always agree with them. There is a contradiction in the celebration of the human experience in todays cinema in that we embrace the complexities and new experiences of the modern world but at the same time the happenstance of the modern melange can create very real and sometimes stomach turning problems. I think LA is probably unique in that is is such a car culture contrasted against other cities in North America. Car culture is much like 'cargo culture' where life imitates the life before it, not always representing the meanings of what was, so clearly. In the film people search for meaning in a world that threatens to crush them out of existence in the blink of an eye. Is it the pursuit of order in chaos that drives us on?, is a question asked by the film. Mostly we are just swept from place to situation by events we can no longer control, is what I think the answer is.It's nice to think we are in control of things, but things mostly just control us. Good work, maybe tries to deal with too many situations at once.