Thought provoking and very in-your-face!

Rating: 10/10 (22 February 2006)

You have to be prepared to watch a film like this. Unless you have no emotions, no real sense of self, and you have been isolated from popular culture. Please keep in mind that this is a young person's point of view. I came away from this film thinking two things: 1) that we as human beings are all racists in some way or form no matter if we admit it or not. 2) Art imitates life and vice versa. I am not disputing the fact that this is an excellent piece of work by Director Paul Haggis, it's just that I was not prepared for the harrowing saga that is the movie Crash. It does not pretend, it doesn't not solve anything, it does not point fingers, you look at it and you can see yourself in it, no matter what age, race, religion you are, unless you're a new born baby. It is an American film, or at least most identifiably American. The values in this film are those that we have been taught, and those that we have grabbed and assimilated along the way. The saddest part of this film, to me is that it seems to be saying that we as human beings and citizens of this earth concern ourselves mostly with the trivial things in life, and that in itself is our own downfall.