open your eyes to see what the world is really like

Rating: 10/10 (29 November 2005)

Crash is about ordinary people in America from different ethnicity and how all their lives are connect. It's about the hidden and open racism that different ethnic backgrounds people have, it's about the little things we do that can actually be a disaster for others, it's about change and to see the world through open eyes and not with our eyes closed. Crash is an in-depth exploration on the themes of racism and prejudice,cause and effect, chance and coincidence, and tragedy,"CRASH" is a metaphor for the collisions between strangers in the course of a day-to-day existence. Set over a twenty four (24) hour period in contemporary L.A. Crash features terrific casts which include: Sandra Bullock, Don Cheadle, Matt Dillon, Jennifer Esposito, Brendon Fraser, Chris Bridges, Loretta Devine, Thandie Newton, Ryan Phillipe and Lorenza Tate. The movie is approximately 113 minutes in length. Crash follows a couple of characters with different backgrounds. We see how these people react to one another, most of the time out of prejudice. We see how a white woman grabs the arm of her husband when two young black men are walking up to them, how one of those black men thinks every white person is a racist, how a white cop pulls a car over only because the people in it are not white, how a couple of people think a young Hispanic man belongs to a gang. We then see that some of the prejudice, although it is wrong to have it, turns out to be true, how the same white cop helps a black woman out of a burning car, just days after violating her on a traffic stop. How she doesn't want him to help rescue her because of the incident, how the same police officer is angry because of the health of his father and that the lady that is responsible for his insurance papers is black, that could explain his behavior. Not justify it, only explain. How a restaurant owner doesn't understand the Hispanic locksmith when he tell him he needs to fix his door not the lock. When the restaurant owner comes back the next morning finds his place destroyed and the insurance adjuster tells him that his insurance doesn't cover it. Because the lock smith told him to fix the door. The restaurant owner then takes his revolver that they had just purchase and goes to the locksmith's home and waits for him. He shoots but nothing happened because they had purchased blanks for the gun. How two gang members want to car jack cars and when they pull over a SUV with a black man in it .The black man retaliates because he tries to explain that is why the black man has it so hard because of people like them. The police are in pursuit of this vehicle and when they pull it over the same white police officer that pulled him and his wife over the day before responds to the other officer to let him go. Towards the end of the movie an Asian guy that got run over by the two Black people had a van full of Asians that would have been sold as sex slaves. You feel sorry for the Asian guy, until you find out he is in the market of selling slaves, and then you feel good he got hit real good with the stolen SUV, since that is what he did with the lives of the people in the van. Shows you can't feel sorry for people all the time when bad things happen. The same black man then was offered money for each of them but in the end he has a change of heart and takes the van back and releases them and even gives them money for food. This movie really makes you examine the way you view and judge others around you. I suggest everyone go see this, no matter what background you come from this movie will truly open your eyes to the real world and what actually goes on. It will amaze you.