A collective view of what common people are capable of when in their worst moments and when confronted with racist situations. Superb acting

Rating: 10/10 (1 March 2006)

Acting, writing and directing in this movie is exceptional. If there was a rating of more than ten on here I would have chosen it instead of ten. A very honest and gut wrenching look at society and how we react to other races in common situations. Sandra Bullock, Don Cheadle, Brendan Fraser, Matt Dillon, Terrence Howard and many others are so good in their respective roles that you become each of them in each scene. I really don't think any of the actors or any of the writing could have been any better than it was. Crash is one of those movies that everyone should see. The writers and the directors give each scene and situation such obvious tender loving care you feel as if you could be witnessing the scene downtown. I did esp since I lived in Los Angeles most of my life. They present you with separate and amazingly real story lines and throughoout the movie then they present you with a beautifully woven and whole story that touches every fiber of your being by the end of the movie and you are left wondering how they did such a good job. When this movie was over I sat and just thought about all of the different situations that they wrote into this script and I couldn't come up with one that I couldn't identify with in a good or bad way. I'd be curious to know if they filmed different endings for each "segment/story" and why they decided on what they did, however they did it, it got my vote!!
If this movie is passed over for an Oscar I may never watch the Academy Awards again. I believe it deserves best picture but I will settle for some individual actor awards, or screenplay awards. This movie was several hundred strokes of genius. It made me cry, it made my heart get stuck in my throat and it made me enraged and it did all of this without the melodrama that so many movies stoop to.