One of those people is you, a failed writer and failed lover who has received an unexpected wedding invitation from your ex. People who commit felonies to avoid minor inconveniences, and who constantly vacillate between righteous empathy and callous disregard for their fellow man. Almost everyone speaks in this uncanny way.Īlways Sometimes Monsters is full of strange people who wax philosophic to those they've just met. Scott's Times review of the film, he'd wondered about a possible name for the genre Crash typified: stories "where people from radically different backgrounds are brought together by a grim serendipity that forces them, or at least the audience, to acknowledge their essential connectedness." I find myself wishing Scott had settled on a term for the genre, because Vagabond Dog's Always Sometimes Monsters is it, whatever "it" is. I think we miss that touch so much that we crash into each other, just so we can feel something." In A.O. I can hear echoes of Don Cheadle's faux-wistful speech from Crash: "In LA, nobody touches you. We're always sometimes monsters, you see. You see a conspicuous title like "Always Sometimes Monsters," and you can bet that in the third act some character is going to fire off that string of words verbatim as part of some truism on the human condition.
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