Crash
“It’s the sense of touch. In any real city, you walk, you know? You brush past people, people bump into you. In L.A., nobody touches you. We’re always behind this metal and glass. I think we miss that touch so much, that we crash into each other, just so we can feel something.” … is the first sentence in Crash directed by Paul Haggis.
That sentence might be the best part of the movie.
I think it was pretty good. For Holliwood that is. Yes, there is a positive ending, everyone is pretty and even the bad guys turn good at the end. Everything evolves around 5-6 groups of characters of different ethnic background that cross each other’s path in many different ways. So we have oportunity to see how biased and racist each group is. Everyone is linked by bunch of coincidences. How likely is for two complete strangers to meet twice in LA by accident ? But that happens in this movie all the time. I guess it’s easier to write a story that way.
Did I mention that everyone looks great and storry ends, more or less, happily with lots of moralist lections ?
Crash is not a bad movie. I’d give it 4 out of 5. Kuddos for tackling racial issues and it can bring couple of tears in your eyes. It was just too Holliwood-ish (or to LA-ish?) for me. I think Holliwood still should stick with what it does best – entertainment. Let others do “serious” movies.