Crash

Crash

Crash is an unending, exposed cycle of modest and extreme bigotry. The title fits the movie perfectly, showing how different people from different backgrounds, race, and cultures crash into other’s life physical or emotionally, daily. This movie helps to depict prevalence racism that is often covered-up in the most diverse country in the world. Crash takes a confrontational, relentless peek at the complexities of racial tolerance in contemporary America.

At the beginning of the movie, African American police detective, Graham Waters (Don Cheadle) and his Latino partner and lover, Ria (Jennifer Esposito) get into to a nighttime fender-bender. Graham quickly utters the theme of the movie, “We crash into each other just to feel something.”

The movie quickly shifts to two young African American men, Anthony (Ludacris) and Peter (Larenz Tate), in an all white upper-class neighborhood, arguing while leaving a restaurant. While arguing, they notice as passing a nicely dressed white couple, Jean (Sandra Bullock) and district attorney Rick (Brendan Fraser), Jean begins to squeeze her husband’s arm tighter. Anthony mutters a humorous line about “ We’re are the only black people surrounded by a seas of overcaffeinated white people and the trigger happy LAPD,” and the asked “Why aren’t we scared?” Contradicting their entire conversation, Anthony and Peter grab their guns and carjack the couples brand new black Lincoln Navigator.

The movie follows the couple home after the carjacking.