At the movies

It's interesting to see the columnists making excuses for the selection of the film "Crash" as best picture in the Academy Awards.  After all, they say, the voters all live in Los Angeles, and this was a film about Los Angeles.

 

I don't believe that for a minute, because I have seen our youth group here in suburban New York completely bowled over by that film and wanting to make a response.  The theme quotation for their Youth Service last Sunday came from the beginning of "Crash."  The film spoke to their lives.  Be sure that you see this film.

 

Also seek out the winner of the Foreign Film award -- "Tsotsi", from South Africa.  We may not see our own lives in this one, but we will see a life we need to understand -- one of those orphans raised on junk piles in the wake of wars and AIDS.  It is the most moving film I've seen in years, amazingly acted by young South Africans. 

 

And, my friends, the Johannesburg area really does look like that -- wind and lightening in dry storms, and red/orange pollution hanging in the air (gold-dust, they say)..  South Africa:  You have the most beautiful cities in the world (Cape Town, Durban), and you have Johannesburg.

 

 

Carol Huston

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