{"id":3051,"date":"2015-06-22T07:12:29","date_gmt":"2015-06-22T14:12:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/?p=3051"},"modified":"2015-06-22T07:14:10","modified_gmt":"2015-06-22T14:14:10","slug":"los-angeles-the-city-in-cinema-crash-paul-haggis-2004","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/?p=3051","title":{"rendered":"Los Angeles, the City in Cinema: Crash (Paul Haggis, 2004)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/131365066\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/center><br \/>\n<em><a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/131365066\">Crash<\/a><\/em> drew great acclaim, up to and including an Academy Award for Best Picture, as a searing and incisive examination of racial tension and prejudice in Los Angeles, yet I\u2019ve never met an Angeleno who likes it. Its indictment of the city \u2014 not, of course, a \u201creal\u201d city \u2014 as a tinderbox of incomprehension and resentment had genuine currency before the 1992 riots; it\u00a0just had the bad luck to come out in 2004. But maybe viewers fifty years hence will look past all this overdetermination, overacting, and general overreaching to see how the film truly illustrates the great violence done to our society not by racism, but by the automobile.<\/p>\n<p>The video essays of\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/channels\/thecityincinema\">\u201cLos Angeles, the City in Cinema\u201d<\/a>\u00a0examine the variety of Los Angeleses revealed in the films set there, both those new and old, mainstream and obscure, respectable and schlocky, appealing and unappealing \u2014 just like the city itself.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Crash drew great acclaim, up to and including an Academy Award for Best Picture, as a searing and incisive examination of racial tension and prejudice in Los Angeles, yet I\u2019ve never met an Angeleno who likes it. Its indictment of the city \u2014 not, of course, a \u201creal\u201d city \u2014 as a tinderbox of incomprehension [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,59],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3051","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-los-angeles","category-the-city-in-cinema"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3051","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3051"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3051\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3054,"href":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3051\/revisions\/3054"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3051"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3051"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3051"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}