{"id":135,"date":"2006-02-22T11:52:31","date_gmt":"2006-02-22T10:52:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.leapfrog.nl\/archives\/2006\/02\/22\/crash\/"},"modified":"2008-07-21T21:51:04","modified_gmt":"2008-07-21T19:51:04","slug":"crash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/archives\/2006\/02\/22\/crash\/","title":{"rendered":"Crash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I finally got around to watching <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0375679\/\">Crash<\/a> on DVD yesterday evening and I must say it\u2019s one of the best things I\u2019ve seen in quite a while. The story revolves around a large group of seemingly unconnected characters whose lives get intertwined through a series of car crashes. Magnolia did this before expertly, this film does it even better perhaps \u2013 never giving you the feeling the run-ins between people are forced. The driving force and main subject of the film is racism, I\u2019ve hardly ever seen the topic handled so thoughtfully. There\u2019s a lot of ambiguity, no clear-cut good or bad guys and as a watcher you\u2019re forced to constantly re-examine your preconceptions about the characters. In short \u2013 hugely enjoyable!<\/p>\n<img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"image136\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blog.leapfrog.nl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/02\/crash.jpg?w=660\" alt=\"Michael Pena as Daniel in Crash\" \/>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I finally got around to watching Crash on DVD yesterday evening and I must say it\u2019s one of the best things I\u2019ve seen in quite a while. The story revolves around a large group of seemingly unconnected characters whose lives get intertwined through a series of car crashes. Magnolia did this before expertly, this film &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/archives\/2006\/02\/22\/crash\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Crash<\/span><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[625],"tags":[84,22],"class_list":["post-135","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","tag-movies","tag-reviews"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=135"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":888,"href":"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135\/revisions\/888"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=135"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=135"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=135"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}