"Crash" AKA "Hate Actually"

Rating: 7/10 (6 September 2005)

Hate actually is all around. For those that have seen "Love Actually", you get where I'm going. The movie "Love Actually" took huge cast of different characters and portrayed how love effects each of them. This movie does the same and the opposite, it takes a huge cast of characters and shows how hate effects them. Hate manifests itself in this movie most often as racism. Everyone, to a degree, is racist, and this movie will help you to see that in yourself, and possibly do something about it, or at least for a little bit. By that I mean that the events in the movie slap you in the face, and the fingerprints don't go away too quickly. The casting and the way the stories mingle together were composed wonderfully. Aside from the jarring social realizations, the movie is very easy to watch and follow. My only critique is that the barrage of hate you witness early on in the film turns you off more than it does draw you quickly into the lives of the characters you come to know better.