M. Night Shyamalan's Art School Project

Rating: 7/10 (5 March 2006)

If you take a book of O Henry stories, and you start reading the first story, then after the first page skip to the second story, and keep doing that till the end of the book, and then start over with the second pages, until you're done with the book, that's what Crash is. Except in Crash, the characters are all in more than one story, and they're played by famous people too. ("Hey, that's Tony Danza!")
Oh, and they're all different races too, like Black and White, and Persian-Not-Arab, so this makes the film very important. And Ludicrous is in it, so that's a good thing. Ludicrous, like most of the characters, is prejudiced. He's prejudiced against White people and Chinese, and also against Negroes too! And he doesn't tip.
The other good thing about this movie is it has a Message. Not a Message like Seventh Heaven (You can be the best preacher in the North American viewing area but if you're wife's not happy, nobody's happy) but a really important Message, which is Bad People Are Not All Bad, and Good People Aren't As Good As You Think. This is a really good Message, and probably should have been the name of the movie instead of Crash.
It's called Crash, by the way, because people in the movie get up in each other's faces, like they're Crashing around in bumper cars. Can you picture Sandra Bullock in a little helmet with a chin strap, driving around in a bumper car and rear-ending Thandie Newton, who also has on a little helmet? THAT would be entertaining!
So. To summarize: 1. People in L.A. don't like each other because they're different races and there is too much traffic, 2. You need to actually go see the movie so you know this for sure, 3. After you see the movie and Get the Message you will be a better person and be happy it won the Oscar, instead of a silly movie like Munich or Good Night and Good Luck.