Crash

I have many favorite movies but the one that I chose to write about is Crash. Crash has a great cast including Sandra Bullock, Don Cheadle, Tony Danza, Matt Dillon, Jennifer Esposito, Brendon Fraser, Terrence Howard, and Ryan Phillippe. There are so many characters in this movie which may seem confusing, but it ends up to be one of the major benefits of the movie. Crash is about many different characters separate lives. At first, the characters seem to have nothing in common but in the end all of them are tied together in some way and all of their stories intertwine. The stories bring many examples of racism and racial stereotypes. The characters consist of a detective who has a younger "trouble maker" brother, the "trouble maker"s partner in crime, a District Attorney and his racist wife, a prestigious film director and his wife, two cops (one of which is extremely racist), and a Persian-immigrant and his daughter. My favorite quote of the movie is when the detective says to his girlfriend after their car accident,

It's the sense of touch. In any real city, you walk, you know? You brush past people, people bump into you. In L.A., nobody touches you. We're always behind this metal and glass. I think we miss that touch so much, that we crash into each other, just so we can feel something.

I think that quote pretty much sums of the movie. It is in the beginning when he says it and it is extreme foreshadowing for what is to come. Crash is my favorite movie for many reasons but mostly because of the way that the characters all have separate lives and problems but then fate brings them all together and connects them all somehow.