DVD | Crash

"Moving at the speed of life, we are bound to collide with each other."

Crash is one of those amazing movies that you’re either gonna love or hate. Me, I loved it. I loved it on so many ways.

I love movies where the key characters paths are always crossing, and I love movies where the end of the movie is shown at the beginning, but you don’t grasp it’s relevance until the end.

So what is Crash all about? It’s a dark and gritty movie about racism. And not just your stereotypical white man racism. It makes a bold generalisation that we are all racist. Every race featured in this movie has some for of racism towards someone out side of their racial group. Weather it be intentional or not, obvious or subtle, it’s still there.

But rather than just show us how bad we are, Crash attempts to show us that we can change. That life gives us opportunities to redeem ourselves, to take back what was taken, to reach out and help someone.

It’s also a funny movie in places – yes I laughed at some scenes. But the funny thing is, you start to think after you laugh, just what was so funny and should you actually be laughing. It catches you off guard.

It’s rarely predictable. Even the most heart-stopping scene doesn’t turn out how you expected it too.

But it is quite a lot to take in. It’s a visual, audio, thinking assault on your brain. If you’re after a popcorn thrill try The Island or Flight of the Pheonix. Crash is a thinking movie. Crash is a sombre movie.

Crash also takes a group of actors you never wanted to see together (some of them you never wanted to see period) and makes them work, makes them believable. I mean, Brendan Fraser in a movie with Don Cheadle? That was never going to work, but it does, in this case anyway.

Personal Thoughts
Crash starts off focussing on how distorted we see people of other races and creeds. How we pre-judge them and consequently treat them. How we elevate ourselves above them.

But by the end of the movie, some of these people are starting to change, to see people for who they really are. To accept them and even embrace them. To discover what true love really is.

I love how Rhett talks about it:
“Another thing that's great about Crash is that characters you originally find repulsive, you end up feeling sympathy for. It shows that no one is beyond redemption.”