Crash
So that's why it won Best Picture...
Let me just say that Crash is such a great movie. I mean, if I had watched this before the Oscars, I would have been rooting for it to win.
It's a hard film to describe, since it's an ensemble film...but it takes plays in 48 hours where different lives "crash" into each other. It's just such a beautifully made film. It deals a whole lot about racism in America...so there are very heavy issues portrayed here.
I cried so much...and even after the movie, I was crying for about five minutes while I was contemplating the film. It's such a moving film...and I like the way some of the conflicts were resolved and other conflicts were not...because that's just how it is in life. There's not always a happy ending.
My favorite storyline would definitely be when the lives of the Persian storekeeper and the Latino locksmith were intertwined. That was just the most moving scene in the film. If my dad wasn't watching beside me, I would have been wailing.
There were a lot more that stuck to me...but I won't dwell on them because there are too many.
With that note, I'd like to say... Please watch this movie.
"In Crash, a simple car accident forms an unyielding foundation for the complex exploration of race and prejudice. Thoroughly repulsive throughout, but incredibly thought provoking long after, Paul Haggis' breathtaking directorial debut succeeds in bringing to the forefront the behaviors that many people keep under their skin. And by thrusting these attitudes toward us with a highly calculated, reckless abandon, Haggis puts racism on the highest pedestal for our review."