When Crash was released, bloggers treated the film like cinematic cancer; an impressive disease, but a disease nonetheless. They especially didn't enjoy when Crash won Best Picture, beating out Munich, Good Night and Good Luck, Capote, and Brokeback Mountain. I'm not here to defend the film as a whole. Actually, I'm not here to defend it at all. That's not part of the "Three Scenes" series.
When a certain scene, specific moment, musical note, color, or verbal phrasing hits you in just the right way, it sticks in your brain. This scene from stuck in my mind. Sure, the film hits you over the head (with a ton of bricks, over and over again) but on the day I watched Crash, I didn't mind. My sockets actually leaked a little due to theatre dust levels, of course. That's what this week's post is all about: scenes that make your sockets leak.
When a certain scene, specific moment, musical note, color, or verbal phrasing hits you in just the right way, it sticks in your brain. This scene from stuck in my mind. Sure, the film hits you over the head (with a ton of bricks, over and over again) but on the day I watched Crash, I didn't mind. My sockets actually leaked a little due to theatre dust levels, of course. That's what this week's post is all about: scenes that make your sockets leak.
Crash
In America
Okay, you heartless bastards. If you're still bitching about Crash or couldn't care less about a little girls dreams of owning an alien lifeform, then pay close attention. The film is The Neverending Story. If this one doesn't expell liquids from your ducts, screw you thrice.
The Swamp of Sadness senses your negative thoughts. The more depressed you get -- the deeper you sink. This is a kids movie, mind you. On this specific day, Atreyu crosses the swamp with his faithful steed, Atrax.
The Swamp of Sadness senses your negative thoughts. The more depressed you get -- the deeper you sink. This is a kids movie, mind you. On this specific day, Atreyu crosses the swamp with his faithful steed, Atrax.
Apparently, the gallant stallion was experiencing an off day. Despite the frantic and heartbreaking screams of the warrior child, in the fictional words of Dwight D. Eisenhower: That muthafuckin' horse is goin' down.
The screen fades to black. Surely, Atreyu figured out how to cheer up his mammoth mammal. Nope. Just like his thoughts on the Korean War cease-fire, Eisenhower was right. And just like the last preteen boy to figure out deodarant...
...the kid sits alone.
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