Do not judge anyone by the color of their skin or their background.

Rating: Null/10 (2 May 2010)

The plot of "Crash" is a group of people are connected in one way or another in a 24 hour period in LA. Connected being by way of family, relationships, hate, love, or by pure coincides. Mayor actors/actresses that appear in this movie are; Don Cheadle (Det. Graham Waters), Sandra Bullock (Jean Cabot), Matt Dillion (Officer John Ryan), Jennifer Esposito (Ria), and Karina Arroyava (Elizabeth). The theme of this film is prevalent throughout the movie, wanting the viewers to know that there is good and bad in every human being, and also not to judge people you don't know by the color of their skin or the normal stereotype they represent. Two techniques that I found really appealing in the film were irony and use of title to represent the meaning of the movie. I thought "Crash" was an extremely appropriate title for the movie. At the very beginning of the movie, one of the main characters, Graham Waters who is a detective is telling his partner, (which later you find out he has intimate relations with) "no one in LA touches each other." He then says, "Everyone lives behind a wall of metal and glass; I think we crash into each other just to feel something." The entire movie is about how people are so judgmental towards each other and have such strong racial hatred towards others. That is the only feeling they know and the only way they can crash into each other is by hatred. The irony in this movie also represents great emotion and understanding of the characters. One scene that really sticks out to mean where I was totally hung on the irony was when a young Mexican father tells his daughter this bedtime story one night after work when she is think she hears a gun shot in the neighborhood. He gives her an imaginary cape that will protect her that he got from a fairy when he was younger. She totally believes the story and has her daddy put the cape over her shoulders and she falls asleep. At the end of the movie, a man comes to the family's house to kill the father because he thinks he broke into his store. The little girl sees her dad outside talking to the man with the gun and she tells her mom that her dad doesn't have the cape and he isn't safe. She then takes off outside just as the man shoots the gun, the little girl jumps into her dads arms and ironically the bullets doesn't hit the girl or the dad. Everyone is amazed and can't believe what just happened. The man with the gun later on tells his daughter, that the little girl was his angel. This was a really good movie, and I really recommend "Crash" if you're looking for an emotion film that really has a message of not judging anyone by the color of their skin or their background.