Review of Crossing Over (2009) by Julien T — 21 Jan 2011

3/5 cinematographically, but I think it deserves an honorary 4/5 for the subject matter and surprising apparent attitude/openness from such a mainstream production - and for making me think.

Soundtrack so-so, filming so-so, acting so-so (I guess).

But FX Taslima's speech was very inspiring and surprising (given the mainstreamness), and making me think of just how much of a crazy nationalist, corrupt, shitty hellhole that the united states is, needing to take so much bullshit getting in and living there, that it hardly seems worth the fucking effort, even though you're escaping from a crazy dictatorship or a country in ruins partially because of the western countries turning a blind eye while exploiting and affecting them negatively in several instances. Makes me hate my own nationalist and racist western country a little more. I wish I had a united states green card so I could film myself cutting it in half. Maybe I should just symbolically sacrifice my current western country passport.