A Great Film about our prejudices!

Rating: 9/10 (26 June 2009)

This Oscar winner was deserving of its Oscar. It has a terrific cast including: Thandie Newton, Terrence Howard, Matt Dillon, Ryan Phillipe, Don Cheadle, Sandra Bullock and Brendan Fraser as well as some lesser known, but equally gifted character actors. Writer/Director Paul Haggis does an excellent job of keeping the proceedings moving along swiftly and smoothly. The story involves the way we, most people, tend to categorize ethnicity, behavior and actions stereotypically, which results in bigotry of varying degrees. The film asks will we ever be able to "get along" together? Personally, I feel we ALL have to change our behavior towards one another before this can ever happen. We need to stop blaming each other and behave as human beings should. This film illustrates how we "read" the behavior of others wrongly most of the time. We need to RESPECT: each other, the law, sexual behavior, all religions and creeds, our various ethnicities, the planet earth, our spaces, our countries and more. The world today lacks RESPECT! People toss their garbage and litter in the streets, they rarely say PLEASE and THANK YOU, they are less polite than 20 years ago, they live in their own little worlds, the education system has failed the last four or five generations. Kids are less creative because of computers, cell phones, violent video games, violent films, the internet. They don't respect their teachers, parents and authority figures as people did 20 years ago. Profanity is commonplace. The world is changing because of this and much of this is illustrated in "Crash". I hope it's not too late to change things around. Sorry, if this comes off as a downer, but I really am concerned about our (humanity's) future.