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Director: Mike Mendez
Cast: Kevin Bacon, Julie Delpy, Brendan Fraser, Andy Garcia,
Sarah Michelle Gellar, Emile Hirsch, Forest Whitaker
Produced by: Code Entertainment and Prophecy Pictures
If 2006’s Crash took the Oscars by storm, this new star-studded hit
dubbed to be the next Crash addresses the issue of six degrees of
separation in an entirely new light.
The film focuses on the lives of five individuals, all of whom are
somehow involved with a crime family led by the sadistic Fingers
(Garcia). Other characters are Happiness (Whitaker), a black man who
seeks nothing but his own name, Trista (Gellar), the rising pop star
whose true name is Sorrow, Love (Bacon) who struggles to save the
woman he loves, and finally, Pleasure (Fraser), who is tortured by
his ability to see the future.
The film’s setting is ideal for its story—the setting combines the
gothic, ghastly and glitzy character of the metropolis. Costume and
make-up were selected well to suit each scene. Ensuring that the
cast was the best when it comes to style and caliber was forefront
on the director’s mind. From the brooding Pleasure to the uncertain
Happiness each actor portrays his role with the qualities his
character would be expected to have.
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storyline is quite impressive. While the story focused largely on
the angle of destiny and the issue of six degrees of separation, the
writers have taken the time to research on organized crime and
several medical issues. Trista’s rare blood type KPAP and the
potency of snake venom are just some of the more intriguing
revelations which hound the film. The story also focuses well on
emotion, so much so that any emotions portrayed by the characters
are well understood by audiences of all kinds.
While remaining largely poetic in its storytelling, the film has
placed an intense amount of realism in the film by combining
violence into the poetic structure. The surprising twists and turns
contribute not only to the regalia of destiny, but also to the power
societal realities and the capabilities of man in the most real
sense.
This film focuses much on the feature of the human need for love,
happiness, and pleasure, and also his inability to be numb from
sorrow. The distinction is made once sorrow has been felt, and that
in all its entanglements humans are capable of feeling love and joy.
In each of the characters’ experiences, they fight to feel
happiness, or for love, or against sorrow, and in each battle, they
become involved with each others’ lives. This movie portrays once
again, that in existing in the same society as others, one cannot
extricate himself from the web that binds him to others.
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