CRASH (2004)
Crash 's poster.
Crash 's trailer.
Crash is a 2004 american drama film written and directed by Paul Haggis (Million Dollar Baby 's director). This movie focuses on the relationship of the citizens of Los Angeles, a city with a high cultural exchange since white, black and latino people all co-habitate the city. The main issues of the movie are racism and prejudice against others, violence and murder.
I belive that this movie illustrates very well the notion spaces and exchanges because it talks about the exchange of culture and understanding of other in a very concrete space: the city of Los Angeles. This movie shows how people run away from the cultural and physical differences that we have because of simple fear of the unknown. All the characters realize at the end of the movie that they've lived all their lives prejudiced against these differences (cultural, ethnic...), and in fact these people that we think so very different from ourselves are just the same as us: human beings with the same problems as us. It also shows the live in this city from various view points of the social scale.
OK Victoria BUT this very good film does NOT illustrate the 'blurred boundary between virtual and physical spaces'. It only deals with real spaces.
ReplyDeleteYou may decide to use it in one of your two folders but your 'main issue' (='problématique') will have to be different...