Movie Review: Crash

Crash follows the lives of many disparate people from various racial backgrounds as their lives collide with one another in many different ways. One of the Main characters, a Detective played by Don Cheadle, starts the movie off with the quote, "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."

From that point on the movie follows these people from crash to crash as they intersect with one another. The main theme of the movie is "Race and Race based interaction." The people play their respective roles as non-stereotypical individuals of each race. The high society white couple. The gang banger black guys. The "Homey" Latin man. The thick accented asian. All these "Stereotypes" are represented by atypical members of each group.

These different people "crash" into one another in a most spectacular way that makes for a fantastic movie. The plot delves into the minds of people who break the traditional molds and show us L.A. from a totally different perspective.

The cinematography made the movie poignant while the acting drew one into the movie and into places people try to forget. No longer was I in Provo, UT, instead I was walking down the street in D.C. at night as a white couple moved further over on the sidewalk to avoid the "dangerous looking" Half-black man. I was also standing there as the upper-middle class "white" guy shows fatherly love to a half-black kid who had no father.

These are the places this movie takes you...and beyond. It takes you into your past, and helps you relive the good and the bad, and reflect on how to do better in your own life. Everyone, especially if you are from Utah, should see this movie. Crash really does show what the tagline says, "Moving at the speed of life, we are bound to collide with each other."