![]() ![]() It is a credit to the deftly written script, tight direction and exceptional acting talent that every one of these many characters is fully realized on screen without ever feeling one-dimensional. With each new additional character we find another assumption, another stereotype, and then watch as that preconception is obliterated as the character develops. ![]() Race is paramount in this film, and all our preconceptions of who people are get twisted and turned through the intricate plot. From the opening line uttered by Don Cheadle we know this is to be a film about how people relate, and from the interchange that follows between Jennifer Esposito and Alexis Rhee (pretty sure she plays the Korean female driver who rear-ended her) how people relate tends to be ruled by first impressions or prejudice. Unlike those other two films this one has a very specific theme to explore. Like Altman's classic Short Cuts, and Anderson's Magnolia, Crash, by writer/director Paul Haggis weaves a tale of multiple characters through the web of streets we have come to know as Los Angeles.
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