Multi layered drama

Rating: 8/10 (14 March 2012)

Crash confronts the racism that is within all of us, whether we admit it or not. It begins with Asian women screaming racial insults at each other at a traffic incident. Next up is Middle Eastern people in an argument at which a man buys a gun. The third scene is a car jacking of a white district attorney an his wife by two black men. The d.a.' s wife is later having the locks changed in their house when she makes racist remarks about the Latino locksmith. A pair of white police officers pull over a black husband and wife and frisk them aggressively, even to the point of sexual harassment of the wife. More examples of racial prejudice continue to a shattering conclusion. Paul Haggis does a good directing job with a fine ensemble cast.