Contrived

Rating: 4/10 (24 August 2006)

I was extremely disappointed with Crash. There were a lot of characters developed in the movie, and all of them said and did things that were more extremely rude or exaggerated than anything I have encountered in real life. In fact, almost every character was just a big jerk, and I didn't care what happened to them. There was one that was someone who seemed consistently nice and that you could empathize with. I can't believe Hollywoodites jumped all over this movie for an Oscar. It was entirely composed of contrived nonrealistic scenarios designed only to please uninformed idealists. And that's not me saying idealists are a bad thing, but I prefer smart ones who can face reality and deal with it while setting their sights higher. I don't see the point of making excuses for and glorifying in media a bunch of jerks in order to try to make them sympathetic when there are so many good people who may have also suffered bad circumstances but still chose to be a nice person instead of a jerk with an excuse. Let's glorify those people instead. And I believe there's many more of them than there is the other.