Anodyne
Sunday, August 08, 2004
 

Collateral

Wasn't as good as Heat, but was still much better than all my other fireworks-avoiding choices put together. Pico, Manchester, Slawson, Sepulveda Boulevard...a roll call that made me immediately want to jump into a rental and head south on I-5.

The city seen at night from the Harbor Freeway, the big towers looming up like oil rigs at sea.

"A South Central deer."

4:45am. Palm trees shaking in the wind, light creeping slowly into the bottom of the sky.

The sunrise on the side of the MTA.

Coyotes running in the streets.

A slow movie that lingers on its actors' faces. Two lovely quiet sequences, like bookends: Jamie Foxx and Jada Pinkett Smith's crosstown taxi ride at twilight, and Tom Cruise slowly bleeding to death in a bright-lit white MTA car, just before sunrise.

The city's plumage, all candy-hued posters and flashing lights and slivers of neon. Posted by Hello

- posted by cjb @ 9:54 AM


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