Monday, March 5, 2007

Crash

With a cast of many actors along with Sandra Bullock, Brendan Fraser and Don Cheadle, the movie is about the friction of people of different backgrounds colliding.
A lawyer and his wife. A Korean couple. A Mexican locksmith. A Persian shopkeeper. A police detective couple. A mother looking for her youngest son. Two car-jackers. An African - American director and his wife. A cop and his sick father. A buddy cop. These people form the storyline where their lives 'crash' into one another's.
The lawyer and his wife are walking down the street as 2 car jackers get away with their car. As they reach home, the wife is paranoid of the Mexican locksmith and is annoyed by her Spanish housekeeper. As she wakes up the next day, she has an accident and none other than her housekeeper comes to her aid.
One of car jackers always thinks Blacks are illtreated and thus plans on car jacking only people of other colour. He and his friend drive away the lawyer's car. On the way injure a Korean man really badly and then drop him off at the emergency ward of the hospital. But they are not able to selll off the car as the dealer doesn't want any cops in his store. The next car they jack is the African American director. After some high drama, they are let off. Then the Korean's car is the next pickup, only to find that it has many people kidnapped as 'slaves'. He lets them go.
As the African - American director and his wife return home from a party, they are the victims of a molestation by a white cop. They are very mad. The next day, the wife is stuck in an accident and the only person who could help her was the cop who molested her.
The cop is trying very hard to get his father an emergency appointment for his health problem, but the hospital refuses and he gets mad at the Black receptionist. He unleashes that anger on the African American couple he sees on the road. His partner is not very happy about it and switches.
The cop's partner catches the same African American man, as he is became the victim of a car jack. As he travels home, he gives lift to the younger one of the car jackers. With a laugh as the base of the argument, he ends up shooting him. He dumps the body and burns his car.
The younger car jacker is the brother of a police detective, who brings his devastated mother to the spot.
The hospital staff, who examines the dead car jacker, returns home to console her father of the recent loss of their store. The Persian man runs a store as his livelihood. He calls a locksmith to fix his door. He hurls vulgarities at the locksmith who suggests to him to change the door. Next morning, his store is burglared and he is unable to get his insurance money.
He hunts down the locksmith and shoots at his daughter, but it seems it was only a fake bullet.
Although the story of the trials with each character was good to look at, there was too much racism and vulgarities being thrown around. A good movie to watch for broadening of thought, but you must be prepared for the mouthing.

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