best movie collage out there

Rating: 10/10 (4 September 2006)

Not many collage movies make it big, but this one is a well deserved effort. I cannot even think of any other collage movies besides What's Cooking, which may be a cool movie for a cultural related class or organization only, but very plain other than that.
Based in LA, this movie displays a controversial array of racial slurs and phrases. Using LA locations was more expensive for the production studio than many other locations they could've opted for, but instead they wanted to give a feel of a possibly icky side of LA itself. They don't overharp on how the movie is based in LA as the sequence of events could happen anywhere in an infinite number of possibilities. But there is something about how they chose the location that makes it seem all so real. Maybe you have to have lived near LA to appreciate the choices of the locations and how hard it was to shoot and keep the locations on hold.
I think the actors and actresses were well chosen. There's not one bad actor or actresses. Even the child in the movie with the cloak line is great! There are too many examples to point out, but I will try to mention a few that come to mind. Danza is very subtle with his character's Fred's subtlety to the racism in his intonation. Cameron's understanding that he has no choice but to fake his pleasure and accept Fred's superficial niceness to complete the show is so perfect. Dillon is an f'in scary, racist cop who gets away with his attitude as people don't want to end up having the LA cops pinned down on them in particular. Phillippe, who plays "good" cop officer Hanson, ends up in a situation where it becomes twisted and very questionable. As viewers, we wonder if Officer Hanson should report what he did to others and why he did it, or if he should just destroy the evidence. Since the cops in the plot line will not try to give Hanson a "fair and equal trial," you can guess what decision he makes and how much talking from the viewers there will be from just that. There are some twisted coincidences that were obviously placed in there to make the collage juicier and interesting.
The scene where a kid is "shot" is interesting because at first I thought she was wearing an "impenetrable vest" but then I noticed later on that the bullets used are blanks. They show the box really quickly, so if you miss those few seconds, you might not notice that small detail.
When the Persian father has trouble with Daniel, the locksmith, it brings an interesting question of what would a person might do if they need a door fixed and it's the middle of the night. Does he stay there all night and then finally try to get in touch with someone during the day? Probably. The situation is also questionable because the locksmith already put the lock on, but still wanted to charge the guy even though the lock could not be put on.
It's arguments like these you can continue having. That is what makes this movie so great!