Critical Analysis Of The Movie Crash

The average viewers of movies movies today may utter that they watch movies merely just for pleasure; however, today’s movies offer more fulfilling values to us than we generally realize. Films today provide us with a substantial amount of insight into some of todays most debatable topics. Look at the Pursuit of Happiness for instance, viewers believed after watching that they could fight for what they truly wanted even though their situations may be difficult. Similarly, like Will Smith who fought for himself and his son so that they too could be better off after struggling through very tough times. The film Crash left viewers with many questions, not about the film itself but rather about themselves. It led to self-examination, where viewers

Haggis does this in such a unique way. He removes all social filters and made the film as revealing as can be. For that alone, Crash achieves my ultimate praise. Today’s society lacks very fundamental principles; it fails to grasp the fact that all men disregarding the color of their skin are equal. In an article from The Atlantic The Worst Movie of the Decade Ta-Nehisi Coates blasts Crash for being one of the worst movies of its time. Specifically stating that, “I don’t think there’s a single human in Crash.” Coates believes that the characters portrayed in the film are far from the truth and the scenes are only hypothetical in nature. I must differ from Coates; he fails to be enlightened by the unique craftsmanship in which Crash was created to be. What Coates sees as the absence of any human beings in the film, I see as the elimination of social filters. Haggis removes the social filters, making characters seem less human than the ordinary. I commend Haggis for this. Society refuses to acknowledge how racially insensitive their thoughts may be and in eliminating social filters Haggis causes viewers to look into themselves and perform self-examination. An article in Stereogum The Hunt for the Worst Movie of all Time: Crash by Gabe Delahaye as he makes reference to the movie asserts that, ”All of them run all over the city being racist and non-racist to each other, pointing guns in each other’s face and breaking down stereotypes only to reinforce other stereotypes. It’s like an after school special for horrible people.” The film in the eyes of Gabe strives on being a film of pure racism and stereotypical characters. However, that is not the true nature in which Haggis orchestrated his film. Haggis said it himself that he accomplished what he wanted with the film. It was not Haggis’ intention to create a film portraying characters with distasteful personalities, he wanted people like Gabe to