A couple of days ago i wrote that i'd rather learn about the US with the 'dark' side of the country. Not success, not 'checks and balances' or constitutional history. And it so seems that the organisers wanted us to, but they sort of went the easy way, easy being watching Crash (not Cronenberg's btw). The first minutes are not what you'd call 'boring', but rather what happens is that the movie plays on your expectations, on your understanding and the avoiding of understatement. In this idea of not hiding racism, it shows racism and the consciousness of racism and hypocrisy about it in a way that racism looses its effectiveness: once outspoken, once open and exposed for the audience to see the would-be object petit a, racism, what we would like to see, is absolutely inefficient.
I shall follow this tomorrow.
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