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| CATEGORY: | DVD |
| DIRECTOR: | Paul Haggis |
| THEATRICAL RELEASE DATE: | 06 May, 2005 |
| MANUFACTURER: | Lions Gate |
| MPAA RATING: | R (Restricted) |
| FEATURES: | Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, Full Screen, Subtitled, NTSC |
| TYPE: | Angry, Class Differences, Color, Confrontational, Crisis of Conscience, Crumbling Marriages, Downbeat, Drama, English, Ensemble Film, Feature, Feature Film Drama, Feature Film-drama, Forceful, Inner City Blues, Message Movie, Movie, Not For Children, Profanity, Race Relations |
| MEDIA: | DVD |
| MPN: | D18342D |
| # OF MEDIA: | 1 |
| UPC: | 031398183426 |
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Customer Reviews of Crash (Full Screen Edition)
Great Movie! This really is a great movie that everyone living in the 21st century should watch. Race relations, not only in Los Angeles, but all over the world effect our daily lives and this movie show's it as raw and real as is the world we live in. Great actors, combined with a true to life story makes for one spectacular movie. I highly recommend it.
Viewing for all!
I watched this movie not really knowing what to expect. I found it a must-see for anyone who thinks that they are not a racist. You're going to change a lot of the things you think about others.
Made for TV Movie, with a lot of cussing.
Recent reviewers are baffled by all the raves this very, VERY mediocre movie has gotten, by both the critics and the teeming masses. I think the reason for this is along the same lines as where an entire Danish village turned out to applaud the clothing taste of an Emperor who was, in fact, marching around in his birthday suit.
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>From the beginning, we were told how daring and provocative "Crash" was. How it made you really, and I mean REALLY think about racism in this country. How raw and natural the dialogue was. How important films like this are to break through the typical Hollywood stereotypes, and get folks to engage in some meaningful discourse.
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>OK....If you say so. To me, it seemed like a live-action version of the Aaron McGruder "Boondocks" comic strip, with actual words substituted for the squiggly lines, stars and exclamation points. "Crash" is a glimpse of real inner-city racial conflicts the same way that "Baywatch" shows real lifeguards at work.
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>Here's what I got out of it; (And I'm trying not to write any spoilers.)
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>1. Big black guy, who's well educated and successful, and browbeaten by his limousine liberal black wife for not being black enough. He discovers his inner "Mr. T", after being humiliated in at a traffic stop.
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>2. You got a white cop--one of the dudes who bounced on the big black successful guy, who is a racist because his working-class liberal father was a victim of affirmative action, and reduced to invalid status where he is at the mercy of a nursing staff that resemble clerks in the post office, with their compassion and girth.
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>This white cop sorta redeems himself in one of the most contrived movie scenes since Dorothy Oz woke up in Kansas, discovering her whole adventure was just a dream. (Doggone it! I hope I didn't ruin that film for anyone.)
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>3. We also have an East-Asian man, who acts utterly without a conscience in his endeavor to achieve the "American Dream"
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>4. Next we have the Hispanic guy. Young, hardworking, father of a cute little girl, and basically an angel in a wifebeater shirt.
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>Naturally....he's menaced by...
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>5. Beverly Hills housewife who's convinced he's stealing from her, and...
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>6. Paranoid Middle Eastern guy who's convinced he's stealing from him. (The latter conflict gets resolved in a scene that makes the white cop's redemption seem like a National Geographic documentary by comparison.)
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>Then there's Don Cheadle. That man can really wear clothes! Seriously, if he dies before he loses his physique, they should mummify him and use him as a mannequin in a department store. The Donster plays a Los Angeles detective with a hundred thousand dollar a year clothing expense allowance, who tries to solve the murder of this aspiring black country singer--dude, I'm serious--who in one way or another bumps into the rest of the characters.
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>Conspicuously absent was the black on Hispanic violence that makes up nearly ALL of the interracial fighting in Los Angeles. Why did the filmmakers do this? I mean, it's not like the TV stations don't talk about this sort of racial unrest several times a week.
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>Maybe the studio was scared that showing blacks and Hispanics slugging it out would incite real blacks and real Hispanics to start fights in theaters, the way they did in 1979 with the movie "The Warriors".
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>Or...maybe the script was written in 1979, and it took them 25 years to get it produced.
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>I gave it TWO stars instead of ONE, because of the black Country and Western guy. When you think about it, someone will need to fill that void when Charley Pride cashes in his chips and rides to that great big roundup in the sky.
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>Kiss an angel good morning
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>and let her know you think about her when you're gone
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>Kiss an angel good morning
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>and love her like the devil when you get back home"