>For "Crash's" biggest asset is its ability to give people a
>carload of those standard Hollywood satisfactions but make
>them think they are seeing something groundbreaking and
>daring. It is, in some ways, a feel-good film about racism, a
>film you could see and feel like a better person, a film that
>could make you believe that you had done your moral duty and
>examined your soul when in fact you were just getting your
>buttons pushed and your preconceptions reconfirmed.

i also like the paragraph about the films (munich, pardise now, darwin) that actually shook up people's perspectives. there were a number of films last year that were truly persuasive and progressive. crash was not one of them. the constant gardener wasn't even nominated, and that film had WORLDS more to say about modern-day racism and a message that was IMMEASURABLY more relevant (the exploition of africa by drug companies/big corporations). crash would have been great 40 years ago. in 2005, it's message is laughably inane and outdated.