Best Description of Crash Yet

We know; we tend to get a little obsessive (and off-topic) from time to time.

Nonetheless, we needed to share this great description of Crash from Karina Longworth at Cinematical:

For those who have not yet had the pleasure, Crash is a science fiction film, set in an alternate universe that looks suspiciously like Los Angeles. This mythic dimension is populated exclusively by about a dozen men and women of various races and ethnicities; their only common trait, the compulsion to speak in stilted expository paragraphs. Singularly unintelligent and consumed with racially-motivated hatred, this crew has been cursed to encounter one another over and over again through easily preventable traffic incidents. In the film’s most compelling narrative knot, the District Attorney of Los Angeles (played by Brendan “Encino Man” Fraser; he apparently ran on a campaign devoted to “ample nugs, grindage, and minimal weezing on the juice”) has his car jacked by two black youths. The stolen SUV apparently has time shifting properties, for soon the two men find themselves in the 1860s, where they run over a “Chinaman” who is presumably standing in the middle of the street whilst working on the railroad. In the end, we learn that women tend to cry and scream a lot, and people of opposite races, apparently, don’t really get along. Also, when it comes to acting nominations, I know I’m not the only one who thinks Tony Danza was robbed.

Update: We love, love, love a sore loser — at least when she’s talking about a movie we hate, hate, hate…

BROKEBACK MOUNTAIN author ANNIE PROULX has slated the Academy Awards for giving the Best Picture Oscar to CRASH at this year’s (06) presentation ceremony. In an essay published by British newspaper The Guardian, Proulx describes voters as “out of touch” and “segregated” from current issues, and insists they were easily influenced by Crash’s production company Lions Gate Entertainment. She writes, “Roughly 6,000 film industry voters, most in the Los Angeles area, many living cloistered lives behind wrought-iron gates or in deluxe rest homes, out of touch not only with the shifting larger culture and the yeasty ferment that is America these days, but also out of touch with their own segregated city, decide which films are good. “And rumour has it that Lions Gate inundated the academy voters with DVD copies of ‘Trash’ – excuse me, Crash – a few weeks before the ballot deadline. “Next year we can look to the awards for controversial themes on the punishment of adulterers with a branding iron in the shape of the letter A, runaway slaves, and the debate over free silver.

Although we’re sure others will curse you for feeding our obsession, we thank Bill Green for the tip.

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