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"Crash" Interconnection in Fort Greene
May 28, 2005
I just walked out of the film "Crash." It was the best movie I've seen in the last year or so. I was amazed by how it brought issues of race, immigration, and money into the interconnected and intimate stories of 10 or so very human characters.
That's all I'm going to write for now because I'm enjoying the first weekend in many months that is about relaxing and regenerating. After leaving Learning Matters a little early on this beautiful spring/summer new york day for the work session of the Media that Matters Film Festival, I sat in the sun and called a potential replacement for my job, and then headed home for a relaxing listen to an "On the Media" podcast.
In between the wash cycle of my loads of laundry, I checked out this new solar powered outdoor restaurant called Habana Outpost at the corner of Fulton and South Portland, and met some new friends over a $2.50 Brooklyn Draft and a great burger and mexican corn.
It's amazing that in my New York crazy life, I feel totally relaxed and ready for bed after laundry, dinner, and a great film. I guess it's because it all happened in a three block radius on a beautiful summer night in Fort Greene.
On the two block walk from BAM to my apartment, it was perfect that I ran into Ashanti, the young artist from the block who's making a film about the changin neighborhood. It was one of those nights, like in "Crash," where I felt in tune with the energy of the interconnectedness.
Posted by Colin at May 28, 2005 4:23 AM
