Sometimes I am glad I don't always catch a movie when it's in the theatre and getting all of the hype from box sales and media campaigns. Sometimes you are blessed with a movie like Crash that really triggers a nerve in you that might have otherwise put you off if it had been shoved down your throat like anything else. Sometimes you are suprised to find Hollywood still has a soul.
Crash is a new favorite. The acting, the soundtrack, the imagry, the tone; all were supurb but the message was something almost sureal. Every so often a movie comes out that really seems to capture the tension of the time it was made. This movie has been compared to Magnolia in the reviews I have seen (another good film but not nearly as good) but I kept thinking of the 1991 movie Grand Canyon to pair this to. Both were even a picture of the same city but much different times. Like the kid who used to get beat up in the school yard, now a little tougher for it now but lost a peice of himself getting there.
Crash is a fantastic movie. I remember sitting in the theater and feeling nearly the full range of human emotion. Rare for a movie to affect me like that.
Yeah it was a really great movie love the fire scene plus I got the soundtrack.