Pleasant Surprise

Rating: 9/10 (4 August 2005)

I was rather surprised about the plots of this movie. All I knew about it was what I have seen watching the trailer. Nevertheless we went to see it since the alternatives were rather weak.
I was a bit disappointed in the beginning when everything seemed to be about racism and characters whos actions I could not understand. I thought heh whats the big point? So that dude is black and that chick is white.. Come on guys, get along. Don't be such clichés.
But as the movie went on and I stopped wondering how it is possible that a bunch of people keeps on meeting each other again and again in such a big city as Los Angeles and realized that the movie is something like an oversubscribed analogy and that it really doesn't matter if the happenings are plausible, I started to compare that film to "American Beauty" in my mind. I guess it was necessary to show development in characters that in reality probably would take years.
After that I was very happy we went to see that movie. The message(s) of this film should be pretty obvious, so nothing to say about that.
Personally I really liked Matt Dillon's acting and finally I saw Sandra Bullock in a role that I liked. But the rest of the actors performed very well also. Don Cheadle rules.
Altogether, a film very worth watching. I'm not from America, but maybe it is even more worth watching if you are. Who knows.