This movie, which somehow won the Oscar for best movie of 2006, is one of the worst movies that I have seen in a long time. Instead of a "1" rating, I decided to give it a "3" for the sake of some decent acting and at least some of the musical score, but not all of it.
I do not live in a large city, so maybe I just can't appreciate the message here. Everything in the film is based entirely on race and ethnicity, which is completely alien to my personal experience. Not one of the characters is sympathetic in any consistent way. In fact, I couldn't stomach most of them, regardless of their race or ethnicity. To me, the film represents everything that is wrong with the Hollywood film industry, which does nothing but emphasize cardboard stereotypes and the differences that divide us, not just as Americans but as human beings. I can't think of one truly redeeming element of the film. To me, it is a waste of resources and of any talent that any member of the cast may have. Perhaps it would have worked as a television show, but I don't watch television, so I wouldn't know. All I know is that I will never set foot in the City or County of Los Angeles again. After experiencing this totally depressing, unpleasant journey, why would I? How many car crashes does the average Los Angeles motorist experience in one, single day, or even 36 hours? It's safer to ride the bus, which doesn't say much.
Among the highly improbable turn of events is the rescue of a black woman by a white police officer who had earlier sexually abused her in front of her husband during a traffic incident. How likely is that? Then we have the Iranian immigrant who purchases a gun in a highly telegraphed scene and subsequently attempts to kill a locksmith only because the locksmith advised him that his door needed to be replaced rather than the lock before his business is burglarized and ransacked. O-kay.
I have not researched the films of 2006, but it must have been one awful, lean year if this is the best that it had to offer.
I do not live in a large city, so maybe I just can't appreciate the message here. Everything in the film is based entirely on race and ethnicity, which is completely alien to my personal experience. Not one of the characters is sympathetic in any consistent way. In fact, I couldn't stomach most of them, regardless of their race or ethnicity. To me, the film represents everything that is wrong with the Hollywood film industry, which does nothing but emphasize cardboard stereotypes and the differences that divide us, not just as Americans but as human beings. I can't think of one truly redeeming element of the film. To me, it is a waste of resources and of any talent that any member of the cast may have. Perhaps it would have worked as a television show, but I don't watch television, so I wouldn't know. All I know is that I will never set foot in the City or County of Los Angeles again. After experiencing this totally depressing, unpleasant journey, why would I? How many car crashes does the average Los Angeles motorist experience in one, single day, or even 36 hours? It's safer to ride the bus, which doesn't say much.
Among the highly improbable turn of events is the rescue of a black woman by a white police officer who had earlier sexually abused her in front of her husband during a traffic incident. How likely is that? Then we have the Iranian immigrant who purchases a gun in a highly telegraphed scene and subsequently attempts to kill a locksmith only because the locksmith advised him that his door needed to be replaced rather than the lock before his business is burglarized and ransacked. O-kay.
I have not researched the films of 2006, but it must have been one awful, lean year if this is the best that it had to offer.
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