A thought provoking social study

Rating: 9/10 (14 November 2005)

Brilliant! That's what "Crash" is. A brilliant roller-coaster of stirred, sometimes hidden and unknown emotions, but you can't be unaffected by the ride. This movie almost screams about a subject that everybody in the developed world is very aware of, yet there hasn't been a movie made about it in this way. Everybody is the good guy(strictly no pun intended), all of these everybody's are also the bag guys, but what "Crash" wants to show us is the shift between these two states in each of these people. It succeeds with flying colors. This is a goose-bump movie and I was consuming the screen with my eyes like it was the last movie I was ever going to see. Very precisely and tactfully paced, "Crash" knows when and why to show something-no screen time is wasted for making moments appear more (or less for that matter) than they are. Paul Haggis, the director, also had a very clear vision of why hiring known, even super-star actors/actresses was going to pay off. He succeeded something remarkable, not one! of these names stands out in the movie as the predominant one, quite the contrary, its the events around them that take that place. You can be a somebody, you can be a nobody, it doesn't matter much really. Either way you can get stopped by cops, robbed, shot at or even get killed.
An unforgettable and unrepeatable script, ensemble of actors and a long list of scenes, perfect directing and great music to bring the unspoken to the screen - "Crash" is the reason why movies of this quality don't get Oscars-because we know better!
A movie that shows a so-called rookie director can easily make Hollywood hide in a deep and isolated cave of shame until another Ron Howard eye-tearing drama comes along.
9/10 - Recomendations: Absolutely everybody, especially the confused, the oppressed, the hated, the unnoticed, all of you will find a piece of comfort, I promise