The film is driven by coincidence and preconception, ... Each character, whether they be rich, poor, black, white, Mexican or Iraqi, suffers these preconceptions about the other as a manifestation of personal frustration. You see the characters' motivation and see that behind the belligerent cop is a man in pain, behind the frustrated housewife is a woman who feels let down. Racism is just one part of the much bigger puzzle that the film offers.
Quotes about coincidence (16 Quotes)
The dispatcher thought it was an interesting coincidence that two people in the department bought laptops from Levy and then we got this alert about laptops stolen in Rocky Hill.
All mystical experience is coincidence and vice versa, of course.
In certain areas of this music, especially since the 1960s - and that is no coincidence - certain people have been singled out for attention and the others have been totally ignored to the extent that the interested music public has been made to believe that they no longer exist.
It is a very nice coincidence that my forbears left Scotland in 1695, the year in which bank of Scotland was founded.
IT is mere coincidence that Cooper was born in the year which produced The Power of Sympathy and that when he died Uncle Tom's Cabin was passing through its serial stage, and yet the limits of his life mark almost exactly the first great period of American fiction.
When I think of some of my earlier work, it really seems a fortunate coincidence that I succeeded.
Dressing up is inevitably a substitute for good ideas. It is no coincidence that technically inept business types are known as 'suits'.
I love England. It's no coincidence it's the first place I moved to for a more cosmopolitan life, which is the only thing Iceland lacks.
Now it is such a bizarrely improbable coincidence that anything so mind-bog-gglingly useful could have evolved purely by chance that some thinkers have chosen to see it as the final and clinching proof of the non-existence of God. The argument goes something like this I refuse to prove that I exist,' says God, for proof denies faith, and without faith I am nothing.'But,' says Man, The Babel fish is a dead giveaway, isn't it It could not have evolved by chance. It proves you exist, and so therefore, by your own arguments, you don't. QED.'Oh dear,' says God, I hadn't thought of that,' and promptly vanished in a puff of logic. Oh, that was easy,' says Man, and for an encore goes on to prove that black is white and getshimself killed on the next zebra crossing.
It is no coincidence that the growth of modern tyrants has in every case been heralded by the growth of prejudice.
We see Mali as a pivotal state in Africa, ... as a democratic country and by coincidence through the chairmanship of ECOWAS (Economic Community of West African States) and being a member of the U. N. Security Council.
It's no coincidence that in no known language does the phrase 'As pretty as an airport' appear.
PLAGIARISM, n. A literary coincidence compounded of a discreditable priority and an honorable subsequence.
These are all titles that appeal primarily to the same demographic we believe this technology will appeal to. There is high coincidence of computer geeks that like horror films or action adventure movies.
It is no coincidence that our country has not been attacked since 9-11. Our initiatives to protect the homeland and aggressively take the fight to the terrorists have been factors in that success.