So – Shane and I went to see Crash several days ago. I can almost talk about it now… It was a really intense movie. It was well done. I felt that it moved like a weird mix of Traffic (the intense and crazy content) and Love Actually (the number of characters and how well they kept multiple story lines going).
The movie’s content seemed to evoke the intense emotion that Frogs on Broadway did for me. This intense pain of the world – what do I do with it? What do I hold? How can I fix it? There is much pain and distress in the world. But there are also moments of grace and redemption. That’s the part that I felt that the movie did well that other movies have not done so well. Those moments of feeling that things are okay and that life is good. There are moments where it becomes clear why we do what we do.
How do we live together in a society where separation and isolation are becoming more common? How do we reach out to others who are hurting? How can we reach out in our hurting? It is an excellent movie. You should definitely go see it. But if you’re like me with emotions, it can suck a lot out of you.
In reflecting, we did come up with some moments to think about – how do we help people stop and start communicating better? There was a point in the movie (and ironically – a few points this last week) where things went quickly downhill into conflict or violence because of a misunderstanding. That more communication could have stopped the process and brought everyone to a place of better understanding instead of hurt. How do we affect society so that as a whole, more people can reach out to each other?
So – these and many other questions for me came out of this movie that just named so many issues of society so well.
Posted by Heather Voss at June 2, 2005 09:45 PM