Simply stated  excellent and a pleasure to experience.

Rating: 10/10 (4 October 2005)

Crash is a story of redemption and second chances, about the toxicity that comes from polluted motivation, namely fear.
Told through the easily understood and recognized frame of racism in Los Angeles (no pre-story is required here as most viewers know of Watts District Riots, Rodney King, OJ Simpson, et al) a number of stories are interwoven and told in the manner of Claude Lelouche, Robert Altman, Terrence Tarrantino, et al.
When the edges of each of these stories touches on others, the true nature of shared experience of what can only be called institutionalized fear is engaged. Even newcomers are quickly made fearful and paranoid due to a culture of violence bred from incessant feelings of disconnectedness in their lives, their environments and their choices.
Crash challenges you to look beneath the layer of racism to explore the underlying message that in fear, in adversity, in us-and-them, only bad can result. But when motivated by strength and empowerment, when fear is left to lie, even those characters most despicable can be redeemed with second chances. A lovely thought.