Fools attracted to shiny things

Rating: 1/10 (27 June 2020)

A movie with a message should present it with respect, clarity and responsibility. Movies like Get Out, Do The Right Thing, 13th and even (as silly as it is) Zootopia and various kids shows present these themes about race in some sort of respectable or, at the very least, in a thrilling, engaging way that leaves the audience stunned or a bit smarter when the credits roll. A movie that gets its point across without being an inconsistent mess.
Crash isn't one of those movies. In fact, it's the movie delivers its message in the most rough, uncomfortable and most obvious way possible without carrying about anything else in the movie including its characters and it's plot.
This is a movie so abominably and unapologetically horrible that it shocks me that to this day, people enjoy this garbage. There are literal Sesame Street episodes who present the same message in a better, more adult way than this rated R, indie, Academy Award winning flick with stars all over the production.
This characters (for the most parts) are one dimensional, cardboard cut out, generic stereotypes of the races and group represented. There is a twist where 2 black people talking about how their viewed as menaces who people are afraid and that they should be more scared because of everything else and that they're just normal people, mere seconds before they pull out guns and robs the state attorney car. The movie is trying to prove a point to not stereotype everyone but using those same stereotypes as our characters and its driving force for the plot. None of it is realistic in any shape, way or form. The only thing you get from these people is that they're just douches who are racist in one way or another (except Michael Pena's characters but we'll get to him) and they have a half baked change of heart through an event knocking some sense into them.
The technical filmmaking (i.e lighting, editing, and cinematography) would be fine but then you realized that it won an Oscar and you realize "what?, how?". The editing just consists of basic, film school entry level transitions and cuts with some other ones consisting of pretentious shots carried by the generic, pretentious, operatic score. The score does absolutely nothing but try to hammer in how flashy it is with the same tune used over and over like in the part where Sandra Bullock falls down stairs or how its used when Michael Pena's daughter is shot and its supposed to be dramatic, instead of hilarious due to the editing.
Let's talk about those 2 for a second, Sandra Bullock plays a racist, rich, white woman who's the district attorney's wife. She's racist because of the incident of the carjacking and says some racist things due to anger, falls down some stairs, hispanic housekeeper takes her to the hospital and is not racist. This is basically the end of most subplots from this movie. They either end like that or just abruptly end at the climax like Michael Pena's subplot. Also, was there not a single other take for that scene. You're telling after days and days of working on the movie and editing it, nobody decided to use a better take or tell the director something isn't right? Did nobody explode in laughter when they rewatched the footage and see how terribly and hilariously flawed it is and shouldn't be altered in a better and a serious way. It's possibly the worst scene in the movie by far with a character who doesn't really seem to be bad and good since he's done nothing really racist.
Most reviews on here on talking about "at the end of day, everybody's good and bad', but that's clearly not what's trying to scream at the choir. In one scene Ryan Phillipe's character (a rookie cop) is in a car with Larenz Tate's character and because of suspicion that he has a gun and a fit over country music (no kidding) and decided to just burn the car that they were in and hide the body and then it just ends. It's like if you were downloading something and then (at 97%) it just cut off.
To describe Crash in simpler terms is to describe a rich entitled prick named... Amy, she's the most well known girl across the school, she's very rich gaining a lot of unneeded things Lambo's and jewelry. She's also in the cheerleading team and despite her being the worst and weakest out of all them, she still gets undeserved praise and awards for no reason other than she's popular. She also couldn't care less about anything the next one night stand or how she's "getting fatter". The only time she does care is to talk about how white people/men are bad and refusing to delve more into topics other than the basic shallow level knowledge that everyone else feed her. She just says a couple of words and then leaves