We Crash Into Each Other
- Title: Crash
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Intertwining tales of violence and bubbling racial tensions crash into each other as residents of L.A. deal with issues of hate, bigotry, and racism that present themselves sometimes subtly and sometimes not-so-subtly throughout the course of the film. Crash tries to show how many people live their lives with certain ideas and notions that they might not even be aware of until they are forced to confront them. Many people won’t like the film for it’s bleak look at the human condition, but in examining this small group of people the film works for me as it shows how easily ill-will and prejudice can be passed on from one person to the next through angry or hateful exchanges.
There is a cop (Don Cheadle) who is sleeping with his partner (Jennifer Esposito) and dealing with a drug addict mother and a younger brother (Larenz Tate) who likes to carjack white folks with his friend (Ludacris). The car they choose one night belongs to the District Attorney (Brendan Fraiser) whose wife (Sandra Bullock) is tramatized by the incident and takes it out on her husband and the Hispanic (Michael Pena) locksmith they hire to change the locks who she takes for a gangbanger and has an Iranian customer (Shaun Toub) who thinks he is ripping him off and then when his shop gets robbed he takes the gun his daughter (Bahar Soomekh) bought him and searches for revenge. Then there’s the racist cop (Matt Dylan) who can’t get his father the health care he needs and takes it out on a young black couple he pulls over (Terrence Howard and Thandie Newton) to the disgust of his partner (Ryan Phillipe).
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