I don’t have much to say about this film, besides that I think it’s one that everyone should see. I certainly do not think that if everybody sees this that we will gain any ground on race relations in this country, but it will definitely give a lot of people a wake-up call.
Crash is an ensemble drama (like Magnolia), so there isn’t a central character. Instead, we follow the trials and tribulations of several residents of Los Angeles over the course of 36 hours. Ensemble dramas can be difficult for the typical movie-goer, but I think Crash is a film that everyone can be impacted by.
Yes, the racist trends and beliefs existing in our culture as a whole are oversimplified to an extent and there is some convenience in having all the characters connect to each other (although they don’t realize it), but life can be funny like that sometimes. Convenience can be excusable.
If Crash were trying to be an accurate depiction of reality, I would declare the film to be only so-so (the racist blacks are just as ignorant as the racist whites, etc). But, it plays up all the bad stuff in life for a specific set of interconnected individuals for the sole purpose of tugging at our minds and heartstrings. Crash is very good at doing this.
The characters aren’t completely fleshed out, but that makes it more realistic (we rarely know anything too deep about the people we pass by on the street). At the end of the film, you don’t know where our characters will be going next, but that’s the point. It’s a cross-section of racism in many forms today and an excellent thriller. I think it was worthy of Best Picture for it’s brutal portrayal of what life can be like.
I don’t have much to say about this film, besides that I think it’s one that everyone should see. I certainly do not think that if everybody sees this that we will gain any ground on race relations in this country, but it will definitely give a lot of people a wake-up call.
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