Absurd. This received the highest honor???

Rating: 4/10 (18 March 2006)

After fifteen minutes, I stopped watching the movie. I was both offended and embarrassed. I did finish the film the next day, only so I could discuss it with others. I was offended because the characters and story were so contrived and absurd. The characters' behavior, dialog and complete 180 degree transformation is so unbelievable. The filmmakers did way too much-they used irony and the Pulp Fiction-Magnolia-layered and non-linear storytelling technique inappropriately and to excess. There are too many bad scenes to comment on, but I found the scene with the Tony Danza especially ridiculous. Racism and prejudice are complicated and difficult issues to deal with, and Crash did not deal with them in any meaningful way for me.