With that said, I don't think there's a single human being in Crash. Instead you have arguments and propaganda violently bumping into each other, impressed with their own quirkiness. ("Hey look, I'm a black carjacker who resents being stereotyped.") But more than a bad film, Crash, which won an Oscar (!), is the apotheosis of a kind of unthinking, incurious, nihilistic, multiculturalism. To be blunt, nothing tempers my extremism more than watching a fellow liberal exhort the virtues of Crash.Amen.
If you're angry about race, but not particularly interested in understanding why, you probably like Crash. If you're black and believe in the curative qualities of yet another "dialogue around race," you probably liked Crash. If you're white and voted for Barack Obama strictly because he was black, you probably liked Crash. If you've ever used the term "post-racial" or "post-black" in a serious conversation, without a hint of irony, you probably liked Crash.
Sunday, January 3, 2010
Crash As Worst Movie of the Decade
Why I love Ta-Nehisi Coates:
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Well I loved the movie and I'm white but I didn't vote for Barack Obama because he's black. I voted for him because he said he would fix health care and end the war. Unfortunately neither seem to be happening... but I digress.
I'm sure the movie was somewhat realistic and perhaps had some stereotyping in it as most movies do, but I still liked it.
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