A lay-awake-all-night movie.

Rating: 10/10 (14 March 2006)

Sometimes, viewers outside the U.S. are prejudiced against Hollywood films. They consider them empty and silly. Not Crash. May be we should keep quiet about this one. Crash proves us wrong.
This movie, with an entirely different structure, is the other face of the sugary "Pay it forward". The same way as our good actions improve other people's lives, even beyond the first level of relation, "Crash" shows us how discrimination and prejudice surface and flourish in distress situations, and how they then start a snowball, or rather a random "snooker ball" effect, hitting, hurting and destroying people's lives on its course, and setting off new situations.
It also shows how conceit leads and fosters isolation and self-deceit, and how love heals.
This movie made me lay awake for hours thinking. I hope I don't need to become involved in an accident to realize nasty truths about myself.