The Red Carpet
The Highlander recommends: Crash
C. J Kummer
Issue date: 11/30/05 Section: Spotlight
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Taking place in pre-9/11 Los Angeles, eight lives intertwine in the leadup to an automobile crash on a L.A. freeway.
This film honestly depicts the way we relate to each other, as the stress and pain of family life leads to racist and dehumanizing encounters with strangers.
As Graham, one of the central characters states, "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."