Crash=Overrated

[Guest Sylvan Grenier]

Crash was more about racial relationships(not love relationships) then RACISM IZ WRONG.

 

"Racial relationships"?

I think he means "race relations." Oh, Vandy.

[Mystery Eskimo 0]

The whole movie follows the same simple formula, establish a characters with some sort of extreme trait/predujice/sterotype, then as the movie builds have two of them meet in an unexpected circumstance where at the climatic moment they respond in the complete oppisite way you would expect based on their previous actions, Ooh, edgy, this person is multi-dimensional... no they're not. All the while the film is oh-so-suitaly screaming at you RACISM IS BAD! Holy shit, rich people are racist, poor people are racist, white people are racist, coloured people are racist, racist people are racist, not-racist people are racist, liberals are racist, conservatives are racist. Everybody has prejudices and the problem of racism is complex and requires much introspection and analysis. There are not easy answers, we get the fucking point.

 

The audience is not asked to resolve within themselves their internal conflicts and to work at understanding the issues. Instead, they are told what to think and why they should think it. Ooh, the racist cop is bad... but wait! he also saves the woman. Ooh, the idealistic cop is good, but oh no! he also hates black people! The rich bitch finds her only friend is her housekeeper! The black carjacker saves the asians! Don't bother thinking about it, just react with your gut and then brace for the inevitable twist which proves that what you thought was wrong.

 

This fellow reflects my opinion of the film very nicely. Crash was like being repeatedly hit in the face with the same (nowhere nearly as profound as it thinks) message, with slightly varying, uninteresting characters for each dull, predictable punch.

Edited April 19, 2006 by Mystery Eskimo