Crash

The movie Crash was is the perfect anaology of how we as human race deal with life, people and our own experiences. The movie Crash is about several stories during a two day LA drive involving a collection of inter-related characters, a police detective with a drugged out mother, and a younger brother who is a thief. Two car jackers who are constantly theorizing on society and race. A white district attorney and is irritated with his pampered wife. There is a racist white single veteran cop, who just happens to be caring for his sick father at home. A successful Hollywood director and his wife who deal with the racist cop. There is a Persian-immigrant father who purchased a gun to protect his shop from getting robbed. A Hispanic locksmith and his young daughter who is very afraid of bullets. Throughout this movie there were so many areas where I felt like I could relate to. Parts that brought me to tears when the little girl jumps in front of her father because he told her that the blanket she wore was a special blanket and could protect her from bullets and the Persian man thought the Hispanic man replaced his locks only to be broken into. While the gun was fired, I thought surely the little girl had been shot, but soon realized, the gun had blanks in them. Being of different race myself, it is easy for me to relate to racism and bigotry in the U.S. I always thought if a person was racist it was because of their parents. But not everyone is racist, and that is exactly what the movie shows. The cop who harrassed the Hollywood director and his wife, is going through his own personal problems, the fact that his father is sick and his dying is unbearable to deal with, yet he continues to protect the people. In one scene of the movie, this cop ends up saving the life of the Hollywood director.
This was a great movie, I loved watching it. I really enjoyed the setting of the movie, how the director told several stories in one movie. The music, the lighting, all the effects that were part of  this movie.