Comments on Crash

Most people live their lives based on nurture - learned behaviour that they've lived by for so long that it becomes automatic... until they're faced with an extreme situation - a crisis - and at that point, nature kicks in and people start relating to people as people, individuals, equals.

The way the film poses the lives of 7 people, who touch each other in the 24 hours we spend with them, and how those stories illustrate the way that every interaction you have with another person could be crucial to the way that your day develops and your life twists and turns is brilliantly done.

I couldn't help thinking that the story would be so very different were it not set in the land of the free; where it's your right to own a gun - are we less suspicious in a land where people tend not to own guns? Would our reactions be the same? How would I feel if the police pulled me over and pushed a gun in my face? A tale of power on a level of race, of weapons and assumption.