Movie night!

So Kates and I finally got around last night to watching the 'Crash' DVD that's been sitting above our TV for, oh, a couple months and weeks before anyone had an inkling that the little film would win an Oscar for Best Picture over all the "Brokeback' hub-bub ...

But first I joined Kates who already had started watching 'The Prince & Me' ... cute film and fun to watch (it also helped that it included a lot of Wisconsin culture...), but the ending was terribly cheesy and completely out of nowhere ... Still, my admiration for Julia Stiles made it a little more bearable ...

But 'Crash' ... Wow. The tagline: "A Brentwood housewife and her D.A. husband. A Persian store owner. Two police detectives who also are lovers. An African-American television director and his wife. A Mexican locksmith. Two car-jackers. A rookie cop. A middle-aged Korean couple. They all live in Los Angeles. And during the next 36 hours, they all will collide."

Not the best film ever. But I can see why it won Best Picture, and deservedly so. It's a movie that will be finding a place on my 'Movies that made me say Yeah!' list shortly ... I always seem to fall hard for films with large-ensemble casts and interwoven storylines, and this one was no-different. Not only is it well-written, the themes of race and the tension it causes were remarkably played, and so true ... What's more, it's the notion that everyone, even the good cop, has their flaws ...

... that, and it left me no urge to visit Los Angeles any time soon.