Crash

A mainstream movie about racism... the idea of it made my skin crawl. Starring Sandra Bullock - dry-heaving soon joined the crawling skin. Needless to say, I was surprised by this film. Racism is often a difficult topic to make a film about - it is so complex and no one is immune. Most movies have addressed this topic by presenting the viewer with two-dimensional characters, those that are racist who are then bad and those that are not who are then the heros of the film. Crash goes much deeper into the issue of racism by having every character and moment be a 'grey area'. Terrible things happen to all of the characters in the film, but their reactions are what is the most disturbing, and they, my friends, are true to life.

Sandra Bullock does a fantastic job playing a snobbish DA's wife who the viewers can only hate. Don Cheadle plays a conflicted detective.

It could have been better - but was still good enough for a recommendation.

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