Crash

No film in 2005 probably divided opinion as much- some people thought it was a clever multi-storylined that dealt with a very and always topical issue of racism, even within different minority groups, others thought it was an overblown, badly written and overly sentimental, where do I fall, nearer to the first one, I am not gonna hype it as the modern classic a lot people have said it is, but my opinion is it's a good movie with good moments, good acting and nothing like director/writer Paul Haggis might have intended- life changing.

At first impression, the story quickly draws you in, two black youths talking about how they are judged by the colour of there skin before going onto carjack a car, I did like the film yes- Latino Jennifer Esposito insulting the Chinese, Thandie Newton's truly astonishing performance (just the see part when she goes into the turn of the century black racial stereotype), Matt Dillon finding the name of the call centre woman was "black sounding" then suddenly changing his attitudes, it's one of them films that every character as there own agendas- no character is painted black and white, there is a lot of grey, and I defy you in not giving anything way in not been moved in one seen with the young Ashlyn Sanchez and her father.

Overall, a pretty decent film, the multi-layered, mutli-character storyline as been done better before (Short Cuts, Magnolia), but the film does suffer in places (i.e some of the characters seem pointless) and sometimes comes across as a bit preachy.

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