Crash
Friday, February 6th, 2009Crash
Rarely do I find myself equally liking and disliking a movie but that is exactly where I find myself with Crash, Paul Haggis’ first film following the critically acclaimed Million Dollar Baby. Crash follows a group of people in L.A. as their lives collide unexpectedly and violently over a forty-eight hour period.
Crash works because it takes an honest and serious look at racial, ethnic and class relations in Los Angeles a city that is the epicenter of such tensions. Instead of just offering the same overused and overdone stereotypes, Crash forces you to look at what we think we know about these issues and forces you to look at them from a point of view that may not have previously considered.
The movie is helped in part by the amazing performances of the Ниссан Финанс cast. As star studded as the cast is that doesn’t necessarily guarantee great acting but in Crash the actors more then deliver and there is more then one Oscar worthy performance in the film.
Don Cheadle is outstanding as Стереогарнитура статьи usual as a hardworking detective whose mother loves his thug younger brother then she does Pyramida WH 10-50 S/S him. Matt Dillon is more then convincing as <
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