i agree with what so many others have say about the shallow and offensive nature of this film examination of racism . it be baffle to me that so many people seem to have be fool by it pretentiousness . i want to comment on the matt dillon character a an example of what most infuriate about this movie . here we have a man who contrast with the film underlying message that be all a little racist effectively rap a woman in public and cruelly humiliate her husband and deliberately goad him to make a move that and a he well know and will lead to his arrest or even death . he do all this after pull the couple over without any legal cause but because and a we come to understand and they be black and wealthy and he be a hurt little boy who be now the police and can therefore do a he please . this behavior be not a little racist . this behavior be evil . it be disturb to me that this extreme of racism be hold up next to another character behavior spout her paranoid stereotype about gang violence to illustrate that everybody a little racist . later and be spoon fed some tripe about dillon poor old dad and how black folk drive him into the poor house . be this suppose to explain and or bad and excuse this behavior . and be dillon character mean to redeem himself by commit the utterly unmotivated and unbelievable and laughably coincidental act of save the woman he sexually assault the very night before . please . the fact that so many people seem to feel some kind of self congratulatory admiration for this film make me feel sad about the shallowness of our understanding of racism and and our apparent lack of commitment to condemn and end it .