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Manufacturer: Lions Gate Films
Starring: Don Cheadle, Sandra Bullock, Thandie Newton, Karina Arroyave, Dato Bakhtadze
Directed By: Paul Haggis
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Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
Audience Rating: Unrated
Binding: DVD
Brand: LION'S GATE ENTERTAINMENT
EAN: 0031398179382
Format: Closed-captioned
Label: Lions Gate Films
Manufacturer: Lions Gate Films
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Lions Gate Films
Region Code: 1
Release Date: 2005-09-06
Running Time: 112
Studio: Lions Gate Films
Theatrical Release Date: 2005-05-06
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Editorial Reviews:
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They all live in Los Angeles. And in the next 36 hours, they will collide.
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Summary: great movie
Comment: i've had this movie several times and everytime i lend it never get it back so i had to have it again. great movie
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Summary: Treats The Audience As If They Were Stupid
Comment: I know this is an Oscar winner and that it's got tons of fans but I felt like this movie was being force fed to me. I get it: Racism is bad and coupled with coincidence, its worse.
To it's credit, there are some touching scenes between the Michael Pena character and his daughter but it wasn't enough to save the film.
I'm not sure how other people don't see it-this movie feels so much more contrived than it should. Paul Haggis' other script, 'Million Dollar Baby', is equally forced and contrived, both stories seem to eliminate logic and subtlety in a way that makes it's potential meaning feel shallow and trite.
I'd recommend 'In the Heat of the Night', 'American History X' or 'Amorres Perros' over 'Crash' any day. The latter of those three is not race-related but it's three tales all take place around one accident and is done more skillfully than 'Crash'.
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Summary: I was skeptical, but...
Comment: Wow, where to begin? The opening scenes of Crash made me roll my eyes and hate it. Back in the day I had a neighbor (a white female) who believed that there was no such thing as a non-racist white person, and that we should all pay some sort of tax to the black people for our continuing racism towards them. Well, the beginning of Crash seemed like it was filmed by that exact kind of illogical, paranoid, guilt-tripped person. To add to that, I live in New York City, considered by many to be the most obnoxious place on earth. I've lived here for 15 years, and I'm yet to hear someone - anyone! - making fun of a black person for riding a bus, or because their name is "Snaniqua". I've never seen a Chinese person yell anything about "those %&$(@& Mexicans". I currently live in a multicultural neighborhood where Italian, Arab, Chinese, Latin American and Russian people co-exist without racial bias. I've lived next to about five Arab-run delis for years, and none of them has ever been vandalized. Maybe L.A. is different, but somehow I find it hard to believe.
That said, the stereotypes in the beginning of Crash made me wonder whether it was worth my time to continue with it. I was sure it would end up being a 1-star movie for me. However, as the movie unfolded, it became something completely different, and ended up making a tremendous impact on me. I'm not normally a fan of those overblown dramas that Hollywood loves to push as "important" and "groundbreaking", but Crash was a surprisingly well done, beautiful and moving film that touched something deep inside my heart. People who believe this movie is about racism are wrong. It's about humanity that we all share, regardless of skin color or background. Racism is nothing but veneer, an excuse people use to find faults in others. And when push comes to shove, for most of us it's nearly not as strong as what connects us all as human beings. This is an absolute must-see.
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Summary: Don't buy the hype, and don't buy this film!
Comment: By almost every metric Crash defies classification as a bad film. The acting is excellent all around, the production is clearly big-budget, and the theme, racism, is anything but trivial. The fact that it IS a terrible movie despite all it seems to have going for it makes the disappointment that much more acute.
Watching Crash is like getting smashed on the head repeatedly with a mallet while someone shouts "RACISM IS BAD! EVERYONE IS A RACIST! YOU ARE SOMEONE SO YOU MUST BE A RACIST! YOU ARE BAD!". This goes on for about two hours.
If that weren't bad enough someone else is repeatedly kicking you in the groin while shouting "THIS FILM IS OSCAR WORTHY! IT REALLY IS! THE ACADEMY SAYS SO!"
I don't want to trash the Oscar process here, but suffice it to say that Crash was well served by an intensive (and expensive) Oscar campaign, so don't let the best-picture award fool you. Crash is actually just a formulaic drama that handles a delicate topic with less skill than a drunken Irishman handles sentence structure. In Swedish.
The heavy-handed treatment of racism means that you'll see the protagonists, who are essentially one-dimensional racial stereotypes, thrown into absurd situations that force them to confront the reality of their own racist attitudes. While this goes on a subtle soundtrack emphasizes the emotional detachment of the characters, rising to a crescendo only in scenes that might look good as sound-bytes for the Oscar Ceremony. As a viewer you're supposed to understand that this is all very sad and serious, but you're really just being manipulated into opening your mouth so they can shovel more bull**** down your throat.
What Crash does best is to employ cool artistic and narrative styles it filched from far better films. You have the split storyline covering 3 or 4 independent narratives simultaneously , the tangential associations between characters that tie the narratives to each other, and the frequent use of filters to alter colors to parallel the emotional context of the scene.
If the narrative itself had been handled with any sort of nuance then the stylistic imitations could be easily forgiven, but the focus of this film was never to tell a good story, but to wrap it in an Oscar worthy package. They succeeded in pushing this past the judges, but that doesn't mean you have to waste your money on it too. Don't buy the hype, and don't buy this film!
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Summary: Great film, will challenge your views on a variety of hot topics!
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Now, this is one helluva movie! I watched 'Crash' again this weekend and I was as compelled now as when I first saw it. This film challenges you, especially if you grew up in the U.S. You know the movies that have you guessing until the end? Think you got it all figured out, only to find out you were way off base? This is 'Crash'! But even moreso, what are your views regarding prejudice, racism, stereotyping, sexism? I am sure you will be tested and forced to rethink your stance once you see this. There's an A-List group of actors in this film. The cast performs splendidly, each actor sharing an equal presence, no one star appearing larger than the other. Don Cheadle, Thandie Newton, Ludacris, Sandra Bullock, Brendan Fraser, Jennifer Esposito, just to name a few. The movie takes the viewer through a series twists and turns, from regualar situations from traffic accidents to the unimaginable car jacking! Not willing to give any part of this flick away, the scene in which a little girl's life is threatened still causes the tears to pour from my eyes. 'Crash' is excellent but it can easily be misinterpreted too. Watch this with an open mind or risk missing the true meaning of message it intends to deliver.
DJ COA
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