So, last night Girltm and I watched the movie Crash. It was amazing...and funny. Was is supposed to be funny? Perhaps ironic would be a better word, but Girl and I were laughing out loud a certian parts just at the sheer lunacy of the characters dialoge. For example 2 black men are walking down the street complaining about how everyone is stereotyping them and avoiding them becuase they think they are going to rob them. Then they pull out guns and carjack someone. Then continue to philosophise while they drive the stolen car and they run over a poor chinese man. Thus ensues a discussion about the chinaman under their car...so funny. Does it make me a bad person to laugh at this movie?
2 comments:
No, I don't think it makes you a bad person that you laughed. There is quite a lot of happenstance and ridiculousness in the situations. True, the movie is meant to be an ensemble piece of multiple lives converging briefly. The only way for it to do that is have COMPLETELY improbable events occur over and over and over. Depending on your mood it can strike you as amusing. If you are able to set aside the disbelief, the movie transforms into a very serious drama.
The bigger question: Did you laugh because of absurdity of happenstance, or did you laugh because you didn't feel the situations had any basis in reality?
I think I would laugh because it's essentially totally ridiculous for people to complain about feeling boxed in by stereotypes when they're living them out in their daily lives.
I have no more philosophizing left in me.
Heifer, please.
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