Crash2005

Haggis writes with such directness and such a good ear for everyday speech that the characters seem real and plausible after only a few words. His cast is uniformly strong; the actors sidestep cliches and make their characters particular.

Crash movie disappointment. Strong cast and several Oscars won. And in fact, Crash is a set of small stories somehow related to each other. But all that happens in Crash is raising the topic of racism and nothing more. Film almanacs are difficult to shoot because you need to write several stories well at once. But in Crash I can't remember more than one after a couple of months. Although I still remember other film almanacs, take the same Death Trilogy from Alejandro Iñárritu. Maybe I just don't understand this topic with racism in the United States, maybe it's really so acute. There is not much racism in my country. But nevertheless, Crash cannot be called a whole movie. There are a couple of interesting stories and their intersection. But in everything else, the film is secondary.

Not just one of the best Hollywood movies about race, but, along with "Collateral," one of the finest portrayals of contemporary Los Angeles life period.