Crash

Crash (2004) – Analyse

The movie Crash directed by Paul Haggis is an ensemble* drama film. It’s located in LA and you get a taste of different family dramas. The sorry of the movie is multi protagonist and non-linear. The move begins at `today´ at a site of crime. After a few minutes it goes back to `yesterday´ to explain the audience what happened. At the beginning you here this conversation (look picture) and I think it’s very important for the film. Because all the characters come together but not on a good way. They get together in a conflict or crash into each other. And what they start to feel when they `crash´ into each other is the blame, anguish, hate, violence, dishonesty, loneliness, the reality of their audition life.

You can see many stereotypes like gender stereotypes, race stereotypes, age stereotypes,… . The movie shows you for each stereotype an example person, group or a whole example family. We have the tow typical black car-jackers, we have the typical rich with married couple how get robbed by the black car-jackers, we have a greenly little girl. You see all those stories about the different people and they all come together on different ways. It’s about daily problems like the crimes, immigration, poverty, anguish, violence of police officers.

The whole film is very dark and you don’t see bright sunlight or the blue sky and the mood is could. The music is mostly in English but sometimes also other languages. I started crying during I watched the film so I can say it’s really emotional and target. For me the different relationships were good constructed and its interesting how all the different worlds of the protagonists come together. It was interesting to see how the different people start to act because of their need.

*ensemble: no main protagonist, all the main characters are same important. So the actors get lesser then they usual gage.