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Movie
description |
-Ben
Affleck
-Samuel
L.
Jackson
Two
cars
collide
on
the
FDR
expressway.
Their
drivers--two
seemingly
opposite
men--are
Gavin
Banek
(Ben
Affleck),
a
young
white
partner
in a
powerful
law
firm,
and
Doyle
Gipson
(Samuel
L.
Jackson),
a
meek,
working-class
black
man.
At
the
scene
of
this
fender
bender,
Gavin,
who
is
busy
trying
to
make
a
business
appointment
on
his
cell
phone,
offers
Doyle
a
blank
check
to
cover
damages.
Doyle,
wanting
to
properly
exchange
information,
declines,
causing
Gavin
to
flee
the
accident
site.
In
his
haste,
Gavin
leaves
behind
an
important
legal
file
which
Doyle
uses
to
his
advantage,
setting
off
a
brutal
cycle
of
revenge
between
these
two
men
who
began
this
Good
Friday
as
strangers.
A
class
commentary
that
is
decidedly
different
from
director
Roger
Michell's
previous
film,
NOTTING
HILL,
CHANGING
LANES
provides
very
little
information
about
its
two
central
characters
before
the
moment
of
their
car
accident.
Michell
introduces
them
by
crosscutting
between
both
men
speaking
publicly--Gavin
is
lecturing
to a
charitable
foundation,
Doyle
is
talking
at
an
AA
meeting.
These
techniques
of
crosscutting
and
mirror
imaging
are
used
effectively
throughout
the
film
to
underscore
that
the
obvious
social
and
economic
differences
between
the
two
men
doesn't
disguise
the
dark
and
angry
nature
that
exists
in
both
of
these
men,
and
potentially
in
all
of
humanity.
Portions
of
this
page
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1948-2006 Muze
Inc.
and
Muze
Europe
Ltd.
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