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May 09, 2005
Black and white and noir: Dargis' angels of L.A.
The NY Times' Manohla Dargis has a short, sharp take on fear in LA-set movies: "...The men, women and children in Crash all live in Noir-wood, a metropolis that, to judge by the astonishing coincidences that bring its characters together, could be tucked into the Hollywood Bowl. In this dark place, a rich white woman played by Sandra Bullock nervously eyes two black men and gets her comeuppance and her prejudices confirmed when those same men steal her car at gunpoint.... [She mentions two more plot strands.] It's unclear what point Mr. Haggis hopes to make with this particular narrative thread other than to confirm that sometimes your instincts are right and sometimes black men really are thieves, and sometimes they are wrong and tattoos and a shaved head do not a gang member make. Frankly, the more salient moral here is you should never wear socks on polished stairs and always pay the help enough to earn their loyalty. (That and Ms. Bullock may have missed her calling by not playing more shrews.)"
Posted by at May 9, 2005 11:59 PM
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