Something to think about

Rating: 8/10 (31 March 2006)

This is an astounding movie with some outstanding performances. Here is a movie that will make you look about how you deal with the people around you.
Just be prepared to not like what you see.
The stories of several different, and seemingly unrelated people intertwine in Crash for better or for worse. You see how normally good people have prejudices that surface at times of stress; The white police officer who, after many years on the job, goes to far when pulling over a black couple, the Pakistani shop owner who goes after the wrong man after his store is trashed; the black woman screaming racial slurs at a Chinese woman after a car accident.
Almost everyone will see a bit of themselves in these people.
We also see wonderful moments of realization (which I won't give away here!)that gives us hope for ourselves.
I only have two problems with this movie, and minor ones at that. The first is that the music is loud and detracts from the movie. The other thing is that, even though we are left with a feeling of hope for ourselves at the end, there is no comic relief within the movie at all. There is never the chance to just relax during for a moment. At the end of the movie I was tired.
It is definitely a movie to see.