<p>wow just saw it, amazing movie.... so true </p>
<p>i mean, lets be honest in modern day america. we're all a little racist; every ethnicity in general, none specifically. </p>
<p>We all have perceptions and stereotypes of other groups of people that prevails in our mind; thats just the way things our.</p>
<p>like sandra bullock said... "I knew from the second i saw those two black men that they were trouble. i didnt want to say anything bc THEN IM A RACIST. and what happened? we got jacked"</p>
<p>a saw this movie awhile ago and I loved it. i really liked how all the characters kinda meet at the end. but yea it was awesome. a really funny part was when Sandra Bullock says the maid is her best friend</p>
<p>i loved that movie and Matt Dillion being it didn't hurt....even though his part wasn't exactly portraying him in the best light. That movie makes you think.</p>
<p>It was a good movie...a little heavy-handed and overly stereotypical (all the characters are one-dimensional and predictable). Definitely not the best of 2005 (as some reviewers say).</p>
<p>I watched it on New Years...well, okay, I own it and I've watched it 434343382984390 times. Definitely one of my favorite movies. I LOOVEEEE the guy who fixes locks ... he and his family are my favorites. It's almost a documentary because it offers absolutely no solution to racism and prejudices yet you can't watch it and not wonder what the solution is. And it's entertaining and you laugh at parts but then you wonder if laughing at that made you racist. Such an amazing movie.</p>
<p>i rented it tonight and just finished watching it.... wow that movie was so intense! I definitely loved it, the way everything interconnected at the end made it so worthwhile and interesting.</p>
<p>It is the only movie that I've ever bought. I love that movie. It's the best movie that I've ever seen because it displays the complexities of human beings and of the racial issues in the US. I also like how there's so much depth to the characters. Just when you think that you know them, a new aspect of their personalities is revealed.
(I hope it's OK for a mom to comment here. I usually just lurk, but just had to encourage everyone to see this great movie!).</p>
<p>You're right, it goes way beyon two dimensions... especially with the <em>wronged</em> prejudices (ie "all Hispanics are from Mexico" and the whole Persian/Arab observation). </p>
<p>The other thing is, you feel sympathy for literally every single character EXCEPT the gun seller... which I thought was rather interesting. </p>
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<p>Was there any explanation as to why there was a truck full of Asians? At first I thought maybe they were family members... but.... um.... I don't know who would deal with family that way (chained to a truck). Was the Asian man in the beginning (the one who the driver was speaking to at the restaurant) buying them?</p>
<p>The truck full of Asians-- they were being smuggled. A couple years ago a cop came to my middle school to talk to us about drugs and illegal immigrants. He said that we would be surprised at the diversity in border crossings.. he's seen Russians, Chinese, etc. before.</p>
<p>Evil Asian, the guy didn't "let" his wife get molested. She was molested by a police officer who was deliberately attempting to provoke the husband into a reaction that would probably result in the husband being shot. In essence, the husband (a middle-class guy who played by the rules) had to decide if he was going to defend his wife's honor or risk his life. Not dissimilar to the "choice" given many enslaved husbands when their wives were sexually assaulted by a slave owner. Do you resist and perhaps die, or acquiese in sullen rage? What was "sad and insensitive" was not the husband's reaction, Evil Asian, but the revolting actions of a police officer who knew that he would not be held accountable for his despicable actions.</p>
<p>which means... he let his wife get molested... what they were trying to express is that a typical black man would never allow anything like that to his wife</p>
<p>wrong he had no intention of shooting the man, he was a racist wanting to ARREST the guy- not kill him. he was jealous that this black guy was with a light skinned black girl.</p>
<p>funny, I actually just finished this today. Very powerful movie, one of my favorites. Don Cheadle and Matt Dillon are two of my favorite actors. (Kevin Spacey reigns supreme, however.)</p>