Yeah, like Clarence Page. He should be embarassed to have written this:
...it says something quite positive about the progress of this country's common culture that a movie as edgy about race and ethnicity as Crash would be viewed as a "safe" choice.
The hogswill produced by Hollywood says NOTHING about "this country's common culture". "Common" implies those things we agree on. Well, I can say there may be something I agree with Hollywood on...but I've yet to hear or see it.
Of course, in Clarence Page's world, if Dems and the MSM and the NAACP and Hollywood all say the same thing,---Voila!---common culture! Talk about living in a make-believe world!
Living in the same bubble that had film critics bemoaning "I don't know how Nixon won, I don't know anyone who voted for him".
I think you've misunderstood the use of "common" in that statement. The way I see it, its just another snooty liberal looking down their nose at what they regard as the great unwashed masses and how that movie represents/reports such an improvement in the culture of the great unwashed masses.
Its insulting.