i get the impression that i be watch a different movie to the majority of other people i know who have see this film . it not really that i find the film offensive or anything just that the script be unbelievably amateurish for a film that have obviously have a bit of money throw at it . i really respect paul haggis work on the million dollar baby script and be bitterly disappointed to see how bad this script be . it be clear to me that it be desperate to be the racism version of traffic and but i do not think traffic be really a film worth rip off in the first place . the bad feature of thisfilm be the way it shamelessly spoon feed it audience . do haggisreally think we be so dumb a to require a shot of the blank . do wereally need to see the phone book sit on farhad dashboard and withthe address circle in black texta . can we not be leave to make someleaps in logic for ourselves . i also have a major problem with the dialogue which be so on the nose . i have hear one critic say that the quality of dialogue be deceptively high and because even though people may not speak this way and they certainly do think this way . that be irrelevant . it be the job of a script like this to utilise dialogue in a way that help add to the characterisation and believability of the ( in this case highly implausible ) situation that be set up . these character all speak use the same voice and all they ever talk about be racism . surely the purpose of a film like this should be to promote the fact that race should not really be an issue in these situation and but by make it the sole focus of every scene and doesn not it become innately racist itself . character walk around spout their philosophy and conveniently memorise statistic on race relation a though theyre regurgitate extract from the research essay they have just write . it utterly unconvincing and obvious . a film should reveal it meaning gradually and not slap u in the face with it in the opening scene and then never let up . i can see that haggis intention with this film be honorable and but dare i suggest that by direct his own script he have not be able to identify and and therefore and overcome it flaw . i really hope that writer or director will be really careful in future when approach this amosaic style of narrative . it have be do well a number of time and but get the balance between the personal and the political right be very difficult . and robert altman will not be outdo in that department .