Crash

i saw this movie with my pal Marie (aka Murray) and her girlfriend Jill this past saturday. wow, what an intense movie. Don't see it if you are planning on having a happy, light-hearted evening. The movie was excellent, but also bad. In the sense that the things you saw go on made your skin crawl. Each characters story was interesting, and they all kind of intertwined with each other. The movie also had some lighter moments where you could actually laugh. But what I thought was interesting, and you can all this as food for thought if you go see the movie, is noticing when the audience laughs, when they are dead quiet, and when they react negatively/shocked. I started paying attention to this when during the movie, sandra bullock falls down the stairs in her home, and some pople (not the majority) started laughing. and i thought- hey that's not really funny. so it just got me thinking: when do people laugh/non laugh? what do they laugh at? and (since the movie was about racism) WHO is laughing at WHO? I mean, this movie really conjured up some intense feelings from eveyone in the theater, and I wonder if people started taking sides and stuff. Sorry, kind of dark thoughts, but I think it would be intersting to find our the answers to those questions. overall, great movie- I give it **** 4 stars.