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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...
...Crash begins, people of Hispanic, Korean, African, Caucasian, and Middle-Eastern descent verbally tear holes in each other—a Martian could pick up on the racial tension...
...Crash is writer/director Paul Haggis’ attempt at a candid exposition of L.A. race relations—an ambitious project for a white Canadian’s directorial debut, even an Oscar-nominated one (Million Dollar Baby...
...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...
...their country's massive aid effort in Indonesia. More than 1,000 troops have helped distribute food, provide clean water, treat the injured, clear rubble and build houses. "We all tend to focus on where bombs are going off," said Australian Defence Force chief Gen. Peter Cosgrove after the crash. "But here in the midst of this life-saving operation, these lovely men and women, serving their country, have paid a very big price...