DVD-Tip: LA Crash
Thursday, February 23rd, 2006
Yesterday I watched the movie Crash (aka L.A. Crash). A complete contrast to “Wedding Crashers” which I watched the day before yesterday (A hilarious movie by the way. I was laughing tears.).
Crash is quite an interesting portrait of the “crash” of people of different cultural and racial backgrounds in LA. A movie about sinners and saints and both is in every character of this movie. Once you think you made up your mind about one of the characters you are surprised in the next scene to find out how prejudices and stereotypes let you pigeonhole a character, where he does not belong. Just like in real life, everyone is neither black nor white but gray. During the movie, every character has a crucial moment where he changes by events triggered by the other characters.
In the movie, various storylines connect, disconnect, cross and unite, combined with time-jumps that it is often not so easy to follow but in the end everything forms one big picture that let you understand the whole movie at once. The virtuosic way the characters influence each other (often not even knowing each other) makes the special appeal of this movie.
Concluding this has been a very profound, but non the less entertaining movie that makes you think and rethink.
