Watching Crash tonight. Lots of angry people. Was pleased that the only likeable character was the Mexican. A true Mexican, not a Mexican’t. Not really sure I liked the movie that much. Not sure what all the Oscar hype was about. I think I’ve grown old enough where I need action movies and their pace to keep interested.
Anyway – so many angry people in there. Catherine and I got to talking about it. And other stuff. I started to talk about going back to Bishop elementary school and doing the classroom buddies program…and I saw some of the old 3rd graders I used to work with (who are now 4th graders).
cristobal: Yeah, but they still call me fat.
catherine: [pauses maybe 7 or 8 seconds – might be watching Crash…might just be improving the effect…]
catherine: Well, why wouldn’t they still call you fat?
Burn.
I like catherine’s timing
I thought Crash was intrigueing, but it kind of left you without resolution. Overall, it had some interesting undercurrents though.
dude. can you really be taken aback when kids call you fat? meatnormous, p’eatzzas, taco time…
i thought “crash” was great, if only because there wasn’t the “model minority” asians in it. also because i’m a racist. even so, it wasn’t best picture worthy…