A film that demeans us all

Rating: 1/10 (26 March 2006)

The basic gist of "Crash"? Everyone in Southern California is bigoted to the point that they are always on the razor's edge of glocking one another. Honestly, is there anyone or anything in this film that doesn't hinge on race? This is nothing like real life, and certainly nothing like the multicultural megalopolis that is the great Los Angeles Basin.
Moreover, as film making goes, this is pure manipulative opera bordering on propaganda. I mean honestly, the scene with the Persian guy and the Latino guy's daughter? That's not film making. That's not drama. That's not story telling. So what is it" It's the cheapest of plot devices to fire up the base emotion in the viewer.
Giving this the Oscar for Best Picture is a crime against film making. Crash? How about a train wreck?