movie: Collateral
February 1st, 2006 | by Brian |I saw this movie tonight and enjoyed it. It’s worthy of a blog entry, but perhaps not worthy of being on my del.icio.us video links page. Anyway, this is an action movie with good dialogue and something to think about. I identified with Max, played by Jamie Foxx, who was basically a perfectionist, that is, someone who puts off choices (and his life ambitions) for fear of making a mistake. As David Byrne sings in “Back in the Box”
If I don’t make no decisions, then I won’t make no mistakes. But through all those tiny holes, well the light’s still getting in! I’m going back in the box…Back in the box again
Good point, though the double negatives make me cringe.
Hmm. Apparently the director of this movie, Michael Mann, also produced the ’80s television show Miami Vice, and a movie will come out this year. Now I wonder if Crockett and Tubbs are made to be the clear-cut (but not clean cut) good guys in enforcing drug prohibition - which, to say the least, is bad policy, according to both wonks and those in law enforcement. I was nine-years old when I saw it last. I mean, did the dynamic duo get their cool car from asset forfeiture? Well, at least according to at least one article, “Vice did not portray federal law enforcement agents as heroes. Instead, they often were portrayed as crooks at worst and bumblers at best.”
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