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Call it coincidence, destiny, fate, kismet—in one moment lives can collide and change forever. Whether it is meeting the love of your life at a train station, or saving someone’s life. Life is a collection of encounters, meetings, reunions, beginnings and endings. Sometimes we live our lives as if nothing matters. What we do won’t affect anyone else or how our life turns out but how do we really know. While watching the movie Collateral by Michael Mann many philosophical questions ran through my head. There are so many of us on the planet, does what we do everyday really make a difference? Do we have any say or input in changing our lives or are we just waiting for fate to take its course. In Collateral Mann uses a [good guy vs. bad guy] plot to display that chaos and chance are in fact instigated by the idea of fate; how you act and live your life is your choice but chaos is fate’s way of getting you back on track to where you’re supposed to be. In other words everything does happen for a reason. This film is depicted in the city of Los Angeles where a cab driver of twelve years performs his daily routines. Although he aspires to bigger and better things the only vacation he takes is looking at a picture of a tropical island at times during the day. Today one thing is different he meets a girl; an attorney preparing for a drug indictment case, that makes a real impact on him. She gives him her business card before leaving the cab and Max wonders if he will ever see her again. His next fair is a man named Vincent who offers him 500 dollars for five stops and an extra hundred to make it to the airport on time. Max accepts but after a man falls out of a window and onto the cab at their first stop he discovers Vincent is a hit ma... ... middle of paper ... ... the end of the movie Vincent and Max have both learned something from each other whether they are willing to admit it or not. Vincent learns to truly care about something. He learns to care about Max. He shows this by telling him to call Annie even by saving him at the club by killing the cop however mixed up his intentions were. Max learns a lot from Vincent too. He was kidding himself that one day he would start up a limo company and everything would be perfect. Things are never going to be perfect and sometime you just have to deal with it. Chaos is a part of life but you know what it leads to some pretty great stuff. In fact just in this movie it lead Max to Annie. Some people believe in fate and destiny and the fact is they are real. Some things aren’t going to go your way though. Life is messy. But fate works its magic through chaos. Works Cited Collateral

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