Crash: (This is the ultimate disappointment of "Crash," a movie that painstakingly crafts an urban landscape of alienation only to decide that alienation — which tends to be muddle-headed and inward-looking — is actually kind of boring.)
"Any real city, you walk, you know? You brush by people; people bump into you. In L.A. nobody touches you. We're always behind this metal and glass. I think we miss that touch so much we crash into each other just so we can feel something." That speech sets the tone for a movie in which architecture is not literally absent but seemingly withheld. .... King Kong: The movie's action is pushed forward by the frustrations and the dangers of close quarters. For most of the movie, each character is trying to escape someone or something, either to save his skin or to catch his breath. Indeed, what drives Kong to the top of the Empire State Building is the same impulse that leads him to his favorite Skull Island perch, on the tip of a high outcropping overlooking the ocean: He's just looking for a place to hide out, to become anonymous and invisible despite his gigantic size and tendency to smash things. cont'd.... http://www.calendarlive.com/movies/cl-ca-hawthorne5mar05,0,6880127.story _______________________________________________ in-enaction mailing list http://mail.architexturez.net/mailman/listinfo/in-enaction + Architexturez collaborative at http://portal.architexturez.org/
