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A+ |
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Why can't people see the theme?
by Jeff (movies profile)
Mar 28, 2008
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52 people found this review helpful
Okay people, this movie is not trying to be Crash which spoon fed it's theme to the audience...and it isn't as one reviewer put it that "...one action can cause other serious latter actions." It's not a butterfly effect movie.
Rather it's a movie that reduces our lives to the common human elements we all share - the need to be listened to, accepted and safe. And the movie shows how the boundaries our world creates limits our ability to achieve those needs...for example:
-The U.S. immigration policy reduces someone's love of two children and her established life in America to the black-white issue of "you're illegal, now get out"
-Mid-east politics and terrorist prejudices lead to individual helplessness and an inability to get someone medical care
-Deafness limits one's ability to interact with her own culture
-Language differences (in Morrocco, via deafness, etc.) further creates these barriers
And it is these boundaries that don't allow us to really connect with each other on a human, emotional and raw level. That's the point...to recognize those barriers so we can overcome them in our lives. |
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