"Crash" is a small film with excellent performances. The film was directed by Paul Haggis and was released at the Toronto Film Festival in 2004. The film defeated competitors of the same year with its subtle narrative skills and excellent lens language. The film tells a series of life stories like Domino effect in Los Angeles in 36 hours. Each story is distracting or irrelevant, but the film is closely related to the important elements in the title. In a series of driving events, the scenes in the film reveal the confusion and anxiety of individuals in modern urban life from the perspective of psychoanalysis. At the same time, "Crash" is also a film that reflects American social problems. It reveals the interpersonal relationship between American society. The term "crash" refers to the collision and the end of the movie plot.
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In the conflict between ethnic groups, the director used a clever film language to deeply analyze the problems of American social class and ethnic relations. From the film we can see that even today, the social class and racial discrimination in the United States still exist. As the screenwriter and director of the film, Paul Haggis has well controlled the emotions of the audience. Not only is the plot design and concept of the film earned him praise, but also the hidden theme of the film is more valuable. The film revolves around the living conditions of people of all ethnic groups in the United States. It is based on the Los Angeles neighborhood. It depicts a series of interrelated events. The excellent hints and suspense make the whole movie very tense.
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At the same time, the lens is full of oppression, especially the splicing of the oppressive lens of dark and weak light, which makes people feel immersed in the immersive situation. It just like the breathing is blocked, stimulating the audience's brain for the frequent occurrence of such events in the United States. The warning occurred. There is a severe barrier in front of everyone, blocking the door to peaceful coexistence. The director hopes to use the profound content of this film to encourage people to overcome the obstacles of racial discrimination and break the gap between language and culture. This is not only the director’s dream. It is also the result of the desire of everyone after watching it.
In the movie, most of the director's shots are fixed, and the use of mid-range and panoramic views accounts for a large proportion. This way of shooting people and events is easy to give viewers a view from the beginning. The audience is just a voyeur of an event, and does not go deep into the subjective idea of a character. However, in dealing with some special circumstances, the director's lens is extremely rich in use, and is committed to showing the dull atmosphere of the trapped beast in the movie. The most classic part is the collision plot. The use of a large number of close-up shots is full of oppression, which highlights the metaphor and irony of the event.
Throughout the film, this movie uses a different narrative method than traditional Hollywood movies, which tells stories with multi-line interlaced three-dimensional structures and nonlinear narrative techniques. It is like a criss-crossing intersection, playing different people and things in all directions. It brings a new aesthetic experience to the audience. In the film, the director made a bold and true exposure and reflection on the ubiquitous social problem of racial discrimination in the United States. On the other hand, he carried out profound introspection and discussion through the humanity disclosure caused by a series of accidents. It reveals the indifference of human beings and implies the selfishness, hypocrisy and ugliness of human nature. It can be said that the significance and value of this Oscar-winning film costing only US$7 million is enormous, which makes the work itself a classic movie with deep social influence.
My Score is 8.9
Movie URL: https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/1640-crash?language=en-US
Critic: AAA