INTERESTING TIMES

Yeah, Crash is one of my all time favorite movies, and it also made me angry and sad. The saddest part and the most compelling was the young white cop giving a ride to the young Black man. The Black man spots the cop's St Christopher statue and begins to laugh (because he also relies on St. Christopher to keep him safe while he high jacks cars--something he has resolved to stop). The cop becomes irritated, then edgy, then afraid, and ends up murdering him and dumping his body by the road where his older cop brother must find him as he investigates. This one image stirs up so many imponderable things to ponder In the meantime the older "racist" partner whose behavior had so disgusted the younger cop (and the movie audience) must rescue the same woman he had earlier harassed and humiliated (and does it in the most tender and compassionate) fashion. All the many lives are woven together in amazing and amusing (and some times horrible) ways,