Crash (2004)
Country: US/GER/AUS
Technical: CFI/2.35:1 112m
Director: Paul Haggis
Cast: Sandra Bullock, Don Cheadle, Matt Dillon, Jennifer Esposito, William Fichtner, Brendan Fraser, Thandie Newton, Ryan Phillippe
Synopsis:
The hijacking of a DA's car triggers a series of events over the course of a weekend in L.A.; we see the various characters associated with them and gain an insight into community race relations in the city as they seethe around boiling point.
Review:
Taking place on a particularly chilly Los Angeles weekend, this multi-stranded drama à la Short Cuts stakes its claim to originality by focusing on the race card (black, mixed race, Chinese, Persian) and does a pretty fair job at painting a bleak picture before mistakenly trying to redeem it by occasionally sugaring the pill with flashes of common humanity. These would be okay were it not for the impossibly uptight Sandra Bullock character and the cruel quashing of just cop Ryan Phillippe's integrity in the critical action on which the film hinges. As Magnolia did, but less whimsically, the film carries coincidence to the limits of credibility.
Country: US/GER/AUS
Technical: CFI/2.35:1 112m
Director: Paul Haggis
Cast: Sandra Bullock, Don Cheadle, Matt Dillon, Jennifer Esposito, William Fichtner, Brendan Fraser, Thandie Newton, Ryan Phillippe
Synopsis:
The hijacking of a DA's car triggers a series of events over the course of a weekend in L.A.; we see the various characters associated with them and gain an insight into community race relations in the city as they seethe around boiling point.
Review:
Taking place on a particularly chilly Los Angeles weekend, this multi-stranded drama à la Short Cuts stakes its claim to originality by focusing on the race card (black, mixed race, Chinese, Persian) and does a pretty fair job at painting a bleak picture before mistakenly trying to redeem it by occasionally sugaring the pill with flashes of common humanity. These would be okay were it not for the impossibly uptight Sandra Bullock character and the cruel quashing of just cop Ryan Phillippe's integrity in the critical action on which the film hinges. As Magnolia did, but less whimsically, the film carries coincidence to the limits of credibility.
Country: US/GER/AUS
Technical: CFI/2.35:1 112m
Director: Paul Haggis
Cast: Sandra Bullock, Don Cheadle, Matt Dillon, Jennifer Esposito, William Fichtner, Brendan Fraser, Thandie Newton, Ryan Phillippe
Synopsis:
The hijacking of a DA's car triggers a series of events over the course of a weekend in L.A.; we see the various characters associated with them and gain an insight into community race relations in the city as they seethe around boiling point.
Review:
Taking place on a particularly chilly Los Angeles weekend, this multi-stranded drama à la Short Cuts stakes its claim to originality by focusing on the race card (black, mixed race, Chinese, Persian) and does a pretty fair job at painting a bleak picture before mistakenly trying to redeem it by occasionally sugaring the pill with flashes of common humanity. These would be okay were it not for the impossibly uptight Sandra Bullock character and the cruel quashing of just cop Ryan Phillippe's integrity in the critical action on which the film hinges. As Magnolia did, but less whimsically, the film carries coincidence to the limits of credibility.