Review(tL style)

“Crash”

Starring: Sandra Bullock, Don Cheadle, Matt Dillon, Brendan Fraser, Jennifer Esposito, Luadacris, Ryan Phillippe, Larenz Tate, Michael Pena’, Terrence Howard, Thandie Newton
4 stars out of 4


The new film that I deeply admire most likely had a small budget, most likely did not take long to make, but the ideas are larger then life, the acting is powerful, the story is riveting, and after you have made your final thought’s, this movie could change lives.

“Crash” takes place in the post 9/11 era, it takes place in LA, which is an ideal background that the many characters lay there hats down on at the end of their days. It involves a district attorney and his wife (Fraser-Bullock) Two detectives that are also lovers (Cheadle-Esposito) Two cops that have all too opposing views on race and right and wrong (Dillon-Phillippe) An African American couple (Howard-Esposito) Two black car thieves (Ludacris-Tate) and another storyline that involves a Mexican family and a Persian family.

“Crash” takes place in only 36 hours, one of those films that will probably hibernate in your mind after a long while, and will pop up again when you’re talking about racism. Racism is the ring-leader of the trials and tribulations of the characters, it takes them over, it makes them demand comfort so they can avoid it, it never shuts its mouth when it wants to, due to the characters harshly using racial name calling as scapegoats. The film has many races, Whites, Blacks, Mexicans, Persians, and Chinese etc.

“Crash” as I mentioned has great acting, the casting was made perfectly in my opinion, I can’t even explain how powerful these performances are, even though there are about a dozen characters and not even a two hour run time, when a certain character is on screen, he or she makes the best out of there time. For example the young actor Michael Pena’, who plays a young Mexican father, he is involved in two scenes that are perfectly crafted, one which tells you all you need to know about him and his daughter, where they have been and how a young Mexican father finds the words to comfort his daughter. The other scene is the most emotional scene in the movie, also done to perfection, due to Paul Haggis’ brilliant script.

All I can say is that the movie is about racism, and how people’s lives are intertwined in good times and in bad, this film might have more twists then a thriller, which is another tip of the hat to the script. Bad people sometimes have the heart to physically change, while good people sometimes find tragedy through co-incidences and assumptions. “Crash” basically came out of nowhere, you don’t happen to find about these movies unless you see a preview for them; if you don’t know about them, they know they are important and they find you.

Note-this movie isn't for everyone