Crash Review

Crash Movie Review

I stood in line at the mini-mall, also known as Wal-Mart, purchasing a few movies. A late thirty-something women stood close to me. She kept moving closer and closer and closer. I felt like she would crash into me at any second. I moved away. Without any warning she bellowed, "Have you seen it? You need to watch it! It's absolutely wonderful." I stared at her as if bright lights just came out of nowhere. She went on saying, "It won the Oscar for Best Picture in 2005." I looked down at the movie title on top of the stack in my hand Ð'- Crash.

I anticipated whether the movie would hold true to the wonderful reviews that I heard from critics like Roger Ebert and even the woman in the store. Furthermore, I wanted to see if it deserved the 6 awards for best original picture and 7 awards for best original screenplay it received, which includes the prestige Oscar for both categories. I discovered Crash deserved even more awards and the critics, whom I never trust, made accurate praises. There is not another movie that plays on the deep emotions of the audience in the way Crash does.

The movie takes us on a journey through the lives of a group of people of different races, careers, and backgrounds. In this journey that lasts only two days and a night, each character is a victim of a hate crime or derogatory remark and they are guilty of committing these crimes against others as well. As the intertwining unfolds we see more to the characters than their outer appearance.

Paul Haggis, Oscar recipient for writing Million Dollar Baby, connects each character flawlessly. He shows us how each character develops racial views. Because of this we receive characters that show us not only their mental strengths, but weaknesses. Furthermore, he exposes how people's emotions guide them to irrational views.

While watching this film you may find yourself in disbelief that people act in the manner that characters act. The film is reality base, almost like a documentary, which causes us to take a hard look at our own lives and how we treat other people. An example of how this movie stirs your emotions and seems very real from the beginning is in one of the first scenes. Sandra Bullock's character, Jean Cabot, and her district attorney husband are having the locks changed in their home after