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crash -- have you all seen it?  (i lose track, all the way over here, of when things come out on your side, when there's not a simultaneous worldwide release.)

if you haven't, and you still can, go now.  this thing's (eta: directed, by the way, by paul haggis, whom many of us have heard of, haven't we [g]) going to win awards, man.  i could even go out on a limb and say Ludacris gets nominated for best supporting actor.

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Re: Crash

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See, I would agree with you about Officer Dillon except for the fact that his boss is black. Even if he thought, at first, that he could shame Ms. Healthcare into helping his father at first, someone a lot dumber than Officer Dillon is purported to be would figure out it wasn't working at the first exaggerated eyeroll.

And, notwithstanding Mr. Farsi's desire not to understand Mr. Mexican, he would still be paranoid enough to stay in his shop all night if he's paranoid enough to buy a gun. At the very least, he understood that Mr. Mexican didn't fix his lock.

And my beef with the subtitles is that, at first, they use subtitles but then they switch to the "I'm going to say something in Language A and then repeat it in Language B so that our viewers know what I'm saying". Crash was aimed at a pretty adult audience, and I think we could have dealt with a few (more) scenes reading subtitles.

Of course, I could just be being nit-picky....