August 29, 2005
This past weekend, I saw Crash for $2.00 at my old favorite Cinemark 6 "dollar" theater.
Crash felt, in many ways, very similar to 21 Grams in its exploration into just how connected our lives could be at any given moment with each other.
While many of the scenes--though certainly not all--felt contrived (if you were carjacked by a guy with a gun, would you then turn around and later give him the gun back and just let him walk away??), the movie was all-in-all realistic in its heartfelt portrayal of the characters, especially the way with which it dispensed with stereotypes, rather than reinforcing them.
