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Length: 02:20
Posted: 3/17/2008
Acclaimed all-star Altman epic, this time based on the writings of Raymond Carver, about the lives of a group of Southern Californians. Also starring Anne Archer, Fred Ward, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Lily Tomlin and many others! watch
Question: I recently saw and loved the movie Crash, and was especially intrigued by the way all the stories intersected and converged. Could you possibly give me a list of some other films whose stories are structured in the same way? Answer: I certainly can: First, for the benefit of readers who haven't seen Crash (2005), its structure is one in which multiple narratives are developed simultaneously and overlay or intersect at key points before converging at the end. Unlike ensemble movies in which there's a main plot and a series of subplots, films like this give more or less equal weight to all the story strands and derive a significant part of their thematic power from the apparently random way in which different characters' destinies come together. To my mind, the greatest of all multiple-story narratives is read more
