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UNDERSTANDING ‘CRASH?...
...biggest draw of “Crash?? will inevitably be its gargantuan, high-quality cast, featuring a cultural and racial diversity of which admissions directors could only dream...
Haggis felt from the outset that “Crash?? was not a major studio picture, not only due to the less-than-feel-good subject matter but also because of the presentation of the film’s action, which eschews many traditional rules of Hollywood narrative construction. “I just threw out all my ideas about story structure,” he says. “We just sort of muddled our way through, and got done, and said, ‘Is this a script? Is this satisfying...
Haggis knows how to spin a heart-rending story, and some of Crash??s story lines do pack an emotional wallop. However, the premise of an honest survey of race relations in a hotbed of global diaspora like Los Angeles is a high-reaching goal that Crash fails to achieve...
...tradition of Magnolia and Traffic, Crash??s has a wide breadth of scope: instead of focusing on a single larger story, Crash tells a number of interconnected stories, of which none is clearly dominant...