Redepmtion is possible

Rating: 9/10 (9 January 2006)

There have been a lot of multi-plot line movies in recent years, such as Magnolia and Traffic, not to mention Life is a Dog. Normally I find these disappointing.
Crash is something different, something beyond all these. It tells a number of linked stories essentially involving racism.
Each little story is told so efficiently and profoundly that any one could have been worked into a full story.
Some characters will be redeemed, others will miss the chance for redemption, and some will fall, but there is also hope because of mood of redemption in this movie. The cold and the snow is a metaphor for this. When it cold enough it can snow and that changes the mood of everything.
The interlinking does seem over contrived, the attempts at humour are pathetic and some of this analysis of people and characterisation is a little off. People articulate ideas in a sometimes artificial way, but on top of that much is left unsaid.