After 2006, “Crash” added an “Oscar” to the search tag, and sometimes added a sentence “beat” Brokeback Mountain “. There is no need to fight for the better of the two films. Anyway, everyone has a “best film” in their heart.If we say that the emotional change process of watching Brokeback Mountain is first happy and then sad, then Crash is completely reversed, first sad and then happy. In the first half of the film, “Crash” cuts multiple characters and groups of relationships together, and unpleasant events happen one after another.
First, two Iranians were ridiculed by the shopkeeper as “terrorists” when buying guns, then two blacks robbed a white couple’s car in the street, and then the robbed white wife began to panic, wanted to change the lock at home, and discriminated against the worker who changed the lock for her because he had a tattoo that looked like a gangster.
The wife played by Sandra Bullock also had a big fight with her husband, while the husband played by Brandon Fisher was a politician, and he didn’t want to make a big deal, resulting in negative news that discriminated against blacks.
When the camera turned, two white policemen stopped the car with the same model as the stolen car, but it was a black couple who were carrying out piston movement. The policeman played by Matt Dillon also took the opportunity to molest the wife played by Tandy Newton during the body search. After that, the couple inevitably had a dispute.
In this scene of character collision, there is also a homicide, and the time of its occurrence is the second day of all the above events. The murder case was not revealed until later in the film.
It may be difficult to understand the plot for the first time because of cross-editing, but this is not the most difficult part. The hardest part is that every collision produces full negative energy.
Although there is a warm father-daughter play in the middle, that is, the locksmith coaxed his daughter into having an impenetrable transparent cloak and “took it off” to give it to her daughter, the premise of all this is that the daughter had a terrible experience of bullets flashing through her eyes, and the father made up a lie in order to eliminate her psychological shadow, and the tone is still sad.
I think this is one of the reasons why Crash is not as famous as Brokeback Mountain, because some viewers may not stand these two tests and give up watching the movie halfway (of course, Brokeback Mountain is well-known in the Chinese circle, and the more important reason is Ang Lee).
However, if you get through this period, you will find that the collision paved ahead is gradually reconciled in the second half. In particular, the black woman who was molested by the police in front was unexpectedly rescued by the police through similar physical contact after the car accident, which was quite shocking.
It seems that the film has some wishful thinking to resolve the contradictions and sublimate the relationship between the characters through the arrangement of the script, especially if the big conflict is resolved in an instant, it will inevitably appear abrupt. However, the director’s handling is very smart. He disrupts the narrative and turns it into pieces, leaving many gaps in the time, as if left blank, so that the audience can make up for it, and the plot will no longer be pale.
However, the murder case, which runs through the beginning and the end, is still pending until the end of the film, which may be the real truth. The director accepted the truth, but did not want to yield to it. He created a fantasy ending, perhaps not trying to replace the truth and deceive the audience with it, but setting a goal to let human beings turn this fantasy into truth.