Crash
Starring Don Cheadle, Sandra Bullock, Matt Dillon and others
I took nothing away from this film. It felt heavy handed and overly contrived, almost like it had been dumbed down for the audience. When I watch a film that has been dumbed down, I prefer it to be overt and not be patronising. Anyway, it was a clunky investigation of racism in the United States today. It starts and ends with a car crash, and in between investigates what happens when people racial preconceptions take over. I think the theme was there is no such thing as a clear cut issue when it comes to the complexities of our lives, but it was delivered with such overarching melodrama, I couldn't stand to think about it much.
Someone on IMDB compared it to Magnolia, but in my opinion where Magnolia was subtle and poignant, Crash was big and stupid. It felt like someone said "lets make a serious movie for the lowest common denominator, and we'll have to make everything very obvious in case they don't get it".
4/10