I watched Crash and cried twice. Housemates whom I know them only since I moved here each gave me a ‘why-cry-until-like-that’ look while my roommates who know me for 1 and a half years now gave the housemates a ‘dont-ask-and-you-will-get-used-to-it’ look.
To me, it’s a thought provoking movie. It’s about racism. But it’s the common fear that everyone has against everyone. Fear against different colour and race. Fear of something that they don’t understand and know. Someone from the other groups of the society. People built walls around them to feel secure. Like how Sandra Bullock wanted to change her locks believing that the Mexican-American locksmith is going to give the key to his gang which in fact not. And how she treated her maid with anger but in the end she realized her maid is someone she can call ‘friend’.
The movie presents racism from different views. The ones with power, the policeman who conducted an invasive body search towards the ones without power black woman where the husband can only stood there helplessly because the policeman has gun. While at the same time, the other policeman disagreed with his racist partner.
The ones with guns, are they the ones with power? The Iranian who thought to be an Arabian bought a gun thinking that it will put his business in a stronger position. But because of his ignorance against the advice given by the Mexican-American locksmith while accusing the locksmith for cheating him, his shop was trespassed and damaged. Using his gun for a wrong purpose, he went and looked for the locksmith.
The two young black men in their conversation at the starting of the movie,
“Look around you. You couldn’t find a whiter, safer or better lit part of the city. Yet this white woman sees two black guys… and her reaction is blind fear? Look at us, are we dressed like gang bangers? Do we looked threaten? If fact, anyone who should be scared around here, is us… Why aren’t we scared?”
“Cause we got guns?” Another point of racism, to have a white director to tell a black director how the black actor “doesn’t sound black enough”. To say that the black character supposed to sound less intelligent? It never occured to the Tv director that such thing can happened.
It’s very interesting how the directions of the policemen characters changed. How ironic is it that the racist policeman saved the life of the black woman that he humiliated. While the one portraited as a non-racist in the beginning shot a young black man due to misjudgement that the boy is taking out the travel god statue instead of what he thought was gun.
I feel sad for the locksmith but I think this character presents a hardworking family man which is the gentle part of the movie.
I damn lazy to write further more. If this review doesn’t make sense, just bear with me.
Last thing I would say, this movie deserved the Oscar. 
