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All right, after you have seen the Academy Award ceremony, I’m categorically convinced that you have all been waiting for this movie review to be published (do not confuse it with the Crash that was directed by Canadian director David Cronenberg!!!!). Seriously, when I watched Crash, I really liked it, but however, I was a little bit surprised to learn that most members of the Academy Award have decided to give the award for the Best Picture Crash. After all, I still haven’t seen Brokeback Mountain, but this time will soon come and you will know my personal (or objective) preference. Overall, Crash is without a doubt a good movie.

Speaking about the storyline, Crash just has a quite ordinary one in which people in Los Angeles don’t even touch each other, but when their life collide, they do have a small influence on each other. Personally, while I was watching Crash, I’ve almost believed that I was in front of a movie with no story at all, but it is important to know that, as an independent movie, it is shot as if it was a “real-life” show that was being shown to us with larger-than-life characters, even though some of them come near the parody, especially the thief played by Chris “Ludacris” Bridges.

Hopefully, Crash does have a fairly acceptable pace, thanks to the ability that were put in the writing of the script by Canadian movie director Paul Haggis and Bobby Moresco, but the movie only gets only interesting at the half of the storyline when the characters’ life collides with other people life’s (that’s the main weakness of the movie) and even though you are facing so many sub-plots in Crash, let me tell you that none of these sub-plots is totally uninteresting, because as opposed to most movies from Hollywood that you are likely to see, Crash definitely has a lot of characters that are so realistic, even though some of them are not always appreciable, since the main theme of this movie is, as you’ve all been thinking, racism in a “melting pot” called Los Angeles.

In addition to that, the sub-plots definitely keeps you in the movie, because even though the pace could have been quicker, you always want to know what will happen to the characters. For serious movie lovers, Crash does contain powerful performance delivered by a well chosen cast. Among them, Matt Dillon, as the racist police officer, deliver such a memorable and unsullied performance that definitely force you to stand up, applause him and admire him, because few people in Hollywood could have played such a complex character who is unsympathetic when we are introduced to him at the beginning. Other great performances can obviously be seen from Don Cheadle, Ryan Philippe, Jennifer Esposito, Michael Peña and Thandie Newton.

Finally, might not be a movie for everybody, not because of the themes that it deals with, but rather because of the story that takes a certain to take off, but Crash does contain nice performance, nonetheless. Furthermore, if you’re a good movie lover, Crash is certainly a good movie that you should watch at least once in your life in order to discover a particular method, that is never used by Hollywood, to write a script.

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