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Apr 15, 2021 · Crash isn’t just a movie about race. It’s a movie about pluralism, distinguished—and, I’ll argue, overburdened—by its ensemble structure, designed to cram a wide variety of racial ...
- Justin Charity
May 5, 2020 · Crash adopts a non-linear narrative – one of the major trends of the early Noughties – as it follows a large cast of characters whose lives are all inevitably linked by the ghoulish spectre of...
- Clarisse Loughrey
May 7, 2020 · In films like Crash, racism isn’t a matter of who you are, what you believe, or how you fundamentally understand the world. You aren’t racist, even if you do racist things —because you could ...
- K. Austin Collins
- Crash Team Racing
- Crashing & Burning
- Acab
- Does Time Heal All Wounds? No.
- An Ugly Crash
Crash opens and closes its story with a car accident. Both instances feature the people involved in the accident getting out of their cars and releasing racial slurs on their opposites. It's a dislikable bookend, one the 2004 film wishes you to keep in mind as you enter and subsequently leave the cinema. Not to be confused with the (better, weirder...
Too many characters; that's one of Crash's many issues. You would feel that there's a much better movie in there than this one that is still introducing new characters, 35 minutes into its story. It's hard to concisely tell you what Crash is about, as it intentionally keeps its stories broad in order to connect them later on. Some of these vignette...
Seen early on, a seasoned vet and racist copper (Matt Dillon) pulls over a Black couple in their car. Frisking them, he gropes and assaults Thandiwe Newton's character, Christine, while her husband (Terence Howard) can't help but watch through fear of worse punishment from the police. Let off with a warning, the couple drive home and argue about ho...
Naturally, time has not been kind to Crash. Winning the Oscar for Best Screenplay and Best Motion Picture in 2006, it is still hailed as perhaps the biggest mistake in the history of the Academy Awards (though another bland, morally simplistic movie about race, The Green Book, comes awfully close). Adding fire to the flames, Crash would knock out B...
The fallout from (the aptly titled) Crash has only continued as time has pressed on. Atop of the now worldwide sentiments of ACAB, issues arose behind the scenes for the film too. Published in 2011, a judge deemed that Crash's producer and financier Bob Yari had held back funds from its director and cast. Co-writer and director Paul Haggis is an al...
- Features Writer
Mar 4, 2013 · The real issue is that racism, as shown in “Crash,” is so extreme, so obvious, that it allows the general public—most of whom probably do not abuse black women, or accuse any Mexican within earshot of theft—to look at the racist characters in the movie as Others, as something very separate from themselves.
May 6, 2005 · “Crash” -- A review of “Crash” in Friday’s Calendar section used the word “logarithm” to describe the movie’s formulaic aspects. The word should have been algorithm.
[40] Others noted how the film had nothing new or insightful to say on racism, with Stephanie Zacharek of Salon writing that Crash "only confirms what we already know about racism: It's inside every one of us. That should be a starting point, not a startling revelation."
