If LA was really this racist we'd all be dead by now.

Rating: 1/10 (14 September 2005)

I couldn't' help but notice that a number of intelligent friends were split on whether or not they liked this movie, though the consensus tilted towards a thumbs down. It was one of those movies I kept watching to see just how bad it was actually going to get. What is meant to be synchronicity is simply ludicrous. What is meant to be a look at racism in LA, (presumably a microcosm of the US) comes off like exploitation. The saddest part is that it seems as if the film maker was actually sincere. The top caliber acting by movie stars (that all must have only read the portion of the script they were in) doesn't' save it. Sandra Bullock comes off the best playing a pathologically angry woman, a departure for her. Having lived in LA for ten years, I also found it to be simply untrue. Over and over I am more often struck by how well so many cultures co habitate here; than by how much anyone hates each other. The entire time I've lived here I can count on one hand the amount of times I've heard a racial epithet cross another persons lips. Real racism tends to play out by omission, by the unsaid, by the slight and by avoidance. If LA was as rife with people making blatant racial statements as this movie depicts we'd all have shot each other by now. Crash is of note only because it is a film about racism and no one makes them anymore.