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Crash (2004)
Director: Paul Haggis
Writer: Paul Haggis (story & screenplay)
Cast: Ensemble
Genre: Drama multi storied
Premise: An intermixed, multi-storied tale of Los Angles residents who lead very separate lives from one another. On one faithful night the lives of these people collide through a chain of events. Changing them forever.
Review: Crash is highly stylized and beautifully filmed. It artistically weaves together the unrelated stories of these people's lives. It attempts to deal with the complicated and diverse subject matter of racism...as it explores the reasons and consequences. In this it succeeded.
To me, Crash was like eating cotton candy. It left me hungry for more. I never felt satisfied, I never got my fill. There were so many characters that I hardly got a chance to know them. The film would have needed another 30 minutes for that.
All of the many actors were exceptional, they make the events of Crash so believable.
I found the angry cop character played by Matt Dillon and his situation interesting. He does some bad things but the film shows us how he got to have so much anger inside and that was believable.
I also liked the two characters of the African American car-jackers. The film really does try to handle the misconceptions of race very well.
I would have like to learned more about the TV producer and his wife and also the Mexican American lock smith and his family.
Crash is a unique film that embraces the idea that we all walk around isolated in our own worlds, oblivious to the lives of others that we pass. And yet we can interact in ways that have profound effects on people we'll never know.
Crash (2004)
Director: Paul Haggis
Writer: Paul Haggis (story & screenplay)
Cast: Ensemble
Genre: Drama multi storied
Premise: An intermixed, multi-storied tale of Los Angles residents who lead very separate lives from one another. On one faithful night the lives of these people collide through a chain of events. Changing them forever.
Review: Crash is highly stylized and beautifully filmed. It artistically weaves together the unrelated stories of these people's lives. It attempts to deal with the complicated and diverse subject matter of racism...as it explores the reasons and consequences. In this it succeeded.
To me, Crash was like eating cotton candy. It left me hungry for more. I never felt satisfied, I never got my fill. There were so many characters that I hardly got a chance to know them. The film would have needed another 30 minutes for that.
All of the many actors were exceptional, they make the events of Crash so believable.
I found the angry cop character played by Matt Dillon and his situation interesting. He does some bad things but the film shows us how he got to have so much anger inside and that was believable.
I also liked the two characters of the African American car-jackers. The film really does try to handle the misconceptions of race very well.
I would have like to learned more about the TV producer and his wife and also the Mexican American lock smith and his family.
Crash is a unique film that embraces the idea that we all walk around isolated in our own worlds, oblivious to the lives of others that we pass. And yet we can interact in ways that have profound effects on people we'll never know.