Crash (2004)

Although from name it may look like a movie surrounding an accident but it is not, it is rather a story with deeper context, racism and stereotyping.  Although in India we may not witness discrimination based on skin colour, but we have our own sets of socio-cultural problems, which I won’t like to comment upon, as you must be aware about them yourself.

The beauty of the movie is the narration, the director holds each and every frame and knows what he wants to convey to the audience. The movie deals with not one but multiple storylines, all touching one or another at different times, like ‘Love Actually’ or its Indian version ‘Salam-e-Ishq’.

One story deals with a white district attorney, whose car is robbed by two black thugs, another about a Persian shop keeper whose shop is robbed by people who mistakenly thinks him to be an Arab, one involving a white policeman and his partner who has strong ill feelings about black people, another about a well to do black who is a television director and his wife, and one involving a Mexican lock smith.

There are more characters and lot of sub plots; it is the director who has done a beautiful job of weaving all the stories, stories which will make you realize that racism exist in high propensity everywhere, and more importantly even behind that racism good people exist.

Watch the movie on a slow Sunday afternoon to enjoy it fully, I wish such a movie is made in our county as well, because even in India a lot of racism exist and so does good people.

Rating ****.