Changing Lanes - 7

This film was co-written by Michael Tolkin (The Player, Deep Impact, The Rapture). It is really a moral tale about decision making in our bureaucratic and disconnected world (The DVD extras has an interview with the writers which is helpful for understanding the film). It ties in the connections morality has with aspects of relationships, character, and one's view of the world. The story follows the struggle between two seemingly unrelated men who have an accident on the way to important court hearings. One loses an important document, the other is too late to get a fair hearing. The story continues as they both struggle to do the right thing, or simply know that they cannot and the situation soon escalates. The story is intriguing with many twists and turn. In the end it makes the case that small moral choices can give us insight into the kinds of people that we are.