Magnificent and inevitable

Rating: 10/10 (11 September 2005)

Watching Paul Haggis' CRASH brings to mind Robert Altman's SHORT CUTS, and Lawrence Kasdan's GRAND CANYON. Haggis manages to do them both one better.
With only a little contrivance, Haggis manages to convey the interconnectedness that Altman's film vainly tried to portray, and at the same time he manages to cut Kasdan's film to pieces as naive fantasy.
CRASH is a marvellously ironic, shades-of-gray masterpiece. Nobody gets through unscathed, and yet all are sympathetic to some degree. This is an unusually intelligent Hollywood movie, and definitely worth a watch.