"Crash" - American drama film 2004
How much serendipity can one take in a film? To what point does it all
become a little bit too clever or even way too transparent?
Although the questions above kept boiling up inside my head for a good
part of the film, "Crash" made one of my evenings last week. It had all the
ingredients to keep my eyes glued to the plasma from beginning to end and it even
brought out the occasional sigh of relief at the way one situation or another
was solved.
When it came to its incredible cast, to its spectacular power to make
all characters fully-flashed and truly human, I´d say the film delivered. To
the point that whether the connections were sometimes too obvious simply became
simply unimportant. That´s what high quality use of serendipitous events ought to do in
my book.
What I really liked about it was how none of the characters proved to be "the bad guy" as opposed to "the good guy." All boundaries seemed to dissolve and
all preconceptions melted into a single certainty. This certainty is that any
attempt at pigeonholing a person no matter what criteria you´d use is bound to
fail. We are all victims of the choices we make in certain situations and
nothing, not even skin color, background or high moral principles can point out
at what this decision might be.
This recipe made the stories that intertwine in "Crash" truly engaging and
their outcome did not disappoint. As the tension amounted at times to unexpected
levels I found myself thinking I would definitely give "Crash" another go
anytime.
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