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I've just seen the movie and I found it terribly powerful, one of the greatest compositions I've seen. Crash combines fast action, shocking cinematography, great performances, beautiful music, and a very particular kind of suspense, in which you know exactly what's happening but can't help hold your breath anyway. It's fascinating how the movie works as a fantastic essay about contact and communication, and how it conveys its meaning perfectly. The way the film depicts the lack of identity of the characters, and uses cars as the thread to connect the stories to show without flaws its main theme is amazing. Absolutely worth seeing. One of the best essays about racism and duality I've ever watched.

This is by far the worst movie I've seen in a long time. The atmosphere of the movie oscillates between realistic and unrealistic all the time. The characters' retelling of so many past stories breaks the rhythm of the movie. The dialogue is intended to be very serious, profound and poetic but they end up being funny and full of clichés instead. The characters are quite flat. The cause-consequence relations are poor and there are many loose ends. On the whole, it doesn't even make much sense.

The only reason why I don't give it a 1 is that Bënno Furmann is so cute (well, Heath Ledger is quite nice too) that I enjoyed at least that. But my God, what a hideous movie!