26 January 2007 See audience feedback of this film
Director: Paul Haggis
Cast: Matt Dillon, Don Cheadle, Sandra Bullock, Jennifer Esposito, Terrence Howard, Brendan Fraser
Rating: 15
Length: 113 minutes
Country: USA


“Moving at the speed of life, we are bound to collide with each other.”

A Brentwood housewife and her District Attorney. husband. A Persian store owner. Two police detectives who are also lovers. An African-American television director and his wife. A Mexican locksmith. Two car-jackers. A rookie cop. A middle-aged Korean couple. They all live in Los Angeles andduring the next 36 hours, they will all collide…….

Writer/director Paul Haggis (who scripted Clint Eastwood's Oscar-winner Million Dollar Baby) sets out to address difficult issues: why middle-class whites are afraid of working-class blacks, why being racist doesn't necessarily mean being inhuman, and how politics confuses the truth.

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Fragments. "This is more or less a personal site where you can find thoughts and information about many of the subjects that interest me: the nature of power, the necessity of social change, the futility of war, the stupidity of violence and the promise of strategic nonviolence. These topics and more are explored by presenting fragments of ideas in essays, stories, quotes, rants, poetry, graphic art and photographs." So begins the home page of "Fragments", by James VanHise. Have a look at the "Personal Stories", and the essays and photos behind the link "DECAY IN LOS ANGELES". There is much food for thought here.