this won an award??

Rating: 1/10 (12 April 2006)

I saw this movie a few weeks back and was very disappointed. I had seen all the nominated films for the BEST PICTURE academy award but had not seen CRASH because it wasn't in theaters very long and I missed it. AFter it became the Academy's BEST PICTURE OF THE YEAR it was re-released to theaters and I went to see it right away.
What a disappointment! While I definitely agree that there is much discrimination in our world today, I felt that the script was poorly written because, in real life, people wouldn't say some of those things out loud. An example: after Sandra Bullock and her husband experience a car-jacking, the return home and immediately have all their house locks changed. Ms. Bullock's character starts screaming that she want to have all the locks changed again in the morning because she believes the hispanic man changing the locks is going to sell the keys of the locks that he just installed to his hispanic friends. Ms. bullock's character is an intelligent, sophisticated woman who, even if she did believe that it was necessary to have the locks changed again, she would whisper this to her husband OR express her thoughts after the hispanic man left her house. But, there's no way she would scream and yell that she wants the locks changed again because she doesn't trust the hispanic man who is currently in her house! The film is full of scenes that do not match reality. When the two black men are stopped after a chase and Matt Dillon's partner convinces his fellow officers to 'let them go with a warning', they never looked inside the car; they didn't even approach the vehicle. In real life, there's no way this would have happened and they would have seen the other occupants of the car.
So, this film might be a little entertaining but it says little because it does not match what would actually happen in the real world. 'Crash' is REAL trash!