Crash

This culturely aware film didn't leave me wowed like many of the other movies I've seen recently. But it was packed with drama, and it made you think. Like American Beauty it used the multiple subplots and began with a clip near the ending. It had an allusion to the snow of ash that was found in Schindler's List but it gave a completely different connotation. In Schindler's List it was a false hope. The snow of ash in Crash was that of the shaved ice snow in Edward Scissorhands as a genuine hope.

The blank bullets was one of my favorite parts but I felt the the screenwriter or director tried to hard to let the audience find out about it. When the Persian girl checked on the gun and the blanks every scene she was in, it was a little too obvious something was up. The movie started as a blunt cultural crash in the jaw. It was very raw, organic, and laid out in the open. I liked that. It had the bluntness again of American Beauty. American Beauty was more of the everyday issues of the average caucasian while Crash did the exact thing with all other races. It was so stereotypical that it bordered being comical. But the comic relief provided a good balance in the film. There was a strong ensemble, but since there were so many known faces, I sometimes had trouble figuring out who was the main character. I eventually learned that it wasn't a story of one character, but it was a quilt of all minorities clashed into one story. It was like mixing milk with caramel and chocolate syrup. Not too many people do it, but I'm sure it's nice.