More Crash Hating
Since I didn't see Crash, I feel it's proper to explain why I felt so justified in not bothering. I will happily add your picks to the examples below:Left-wing Crash-hating (thesis: by dwelling on universal culpability for racism, Crash excuses it, closing off the possibility of political and social action that would fight racism and inequality.)
Kenneth Turan, L.A. Times
Manohla Dargis, New York Times
Nathan Newman
Richard Kim, The Notion
Armond White, New York Press (last two via Left Behinds)
Right-wing Crash-hating (thesis: Los Angeles isn't really that bad. People do get along, honest! Here I find the evidence accurate but the intention dishonest: yes, L.A. mixes up people, but that's insufficient to disprove that power here is divided on antagonistic racial lines. The Lopez piece is just funny.)
Matt Welch, L.A. Times
Steve Lopez, L.A. Times
Altogether different: Tom Hayden (thesis: people who say Crash is a bad movie are covering up that Los Angeles is a racist cauldron. Here I find Hayden's evidence useful to marshal in the left-wing Crash-hating column, though Hayden himself clearly does not hate Crash.)
Up next: commentary on a movie that I have seen! And maybe even enjoyed! Maybe.
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