Harish Palaniappan's

This post is about the movie I just saw.. "CRASH"

Firstly... my usual justification.

Everybody writes about movies in blogs..I wanted to be different and thought I will never write one.. but you can't beat the fact that more than any other media and Television, movies make a bigger effect on how people see things.

Indians are now accepting love marriages more than the one in million it used to be..(now its one in 100).. Thanks to a roller coaster decade of romantic movies in Tamil, Hindi, Telugu..everywhere.

Indians are now changing..and feel more disturbed about the sanitation of their country..(atleast in the cities)..some people really have stopped tolerating bad behaviour, spitting, shouting and all such stuff. .. even the police today is looking at acts like spitting as criminal (which was earlier considered 'Manly').. Thanks to again a roller coaster decade of aggresive patriotism in movies like Yuva, Anniyan, Muthalvan, Ramana.. etc.,

Justification done... and aside.

This movie CRASH

The movie CRASH... won an oscar (or did it win more than 1, i dont remember)... it gives a clear idea of the internal black-white racial discrimination issues of America. The cold war kind of reactions and thoughts the whites have seeing blacks, and vice-versa.

The film takes a case-study approach and shows the discrimination that happens, and the follow-up solutions that happen to make people understand each other better.

Why did it feel Indian?
The film's bottom-line reminded me of 'Anbe Sivam' where the movie declares through love and patient understanding, we could help avoid wrong perceptions and mis-conceptions about group of people or their community.

The film's screenplay and direction reminded me of 'Yuva' and many more Indian movies, which also have the approach of taking two or more cases independently happening in different parts of society and how they link together finally, or how the issues with the cases get solved.

Don cheadle - is getting closer to an oscar.
Don cheadle, the actor who made a long-lasting impression on me in the film 'Hotel Rwanda' .. is also in this movie (as one of 6 cases, so not much of his show here).. After 'Hotel Rwanda' & after the oscar winning 'CRASH', he is become a known face in Hollywood for sure.

Links:
CRASH -the movie
Hotel Rwanda -the movie
Don Cheadle's cool official website