The Life of Adrian Liem ...

[no spoiler ahead]
a perfect movie!
excellent and outstanding!
highly recommended!
it's a deep, tearful, yet heavy-thinking drama movie.
and definitely, one of the best movie i have ever saw.
i (almost) cried twice (or three times?).
i wish i could give more than 5 rating to this oscar-winning movie.
25% of the blog i visited so far give this movie 4 stars. and the rest, definitely, 5 stars.

there are a lot character. different race. american, mexican, black, chinese, persian, and some others. some are racialist, or discriminative, and some are the victims. violence, guns, love, family, injustice, power, prejudice, culture and racial conflicts, and daily madness, the scenes are just taken from daily life in america. but this is more than just a racial and discrimination issues. much more.

there are brandon fraiser, sandra bullock, don cheadle, matt dillon and ryan phillippe. but no one can considered as the main character. every character has a background story, a story to tell. it comes with their background at the beginning of the movie, and in the end, somehow they are correlated by each others. everyone has their motives. everyone have the power. the power to destruct, and the power to create something good. all happens in 36 hours, in our multi-ethnic city, LA.

the part that i like most are the locksmith climax scene, and the police officer and the director's wife climax scene. the OST is beautiful too.

note: it has some 17+ scenes though

"It's the sense of touch. In any real city, you walk, you know? You brush past people, people bump into you. In L.A., nobody touches you. We're always behind this metal and glass. I think we miss that touch so much, that we crash into each other, just so we can feel something."

a must see movie, www.crashfilm.com