Never confuse earnest with honest

Rating: 1/10 (19 October 2007)

Art is honest. The antithesis of art is earnestness.
This film is like a man who beats his wife pleading for her to not leave him. It is full of earnestness, but is not necessarily honest.
This film is pleading: please like me! Please think I'm brilliant! Please give me an Oscar! I promise to use every cliché, every stereotype, every hackneyed plot device and I will make sure that you get the message loud and clear.
Crash is manipulative, didactic trite. It is an insult to the art of cinema. The worst part about it is that it pretends to be brilliant, and for the most part gets away with it - it fooled a lot of people.
Watch it closely. Study it. It is a textbook example of how not to make a film.