I watched the Academy Award for Best Picture-winning Crash for the first time since it came out and it was fucking terrible

I was honestly shocked at how poorly it’s aged. It’s like an out of touch white guy’s fantasia on what race relations in America are like. Brendan Fraser needs to pin a medal on a minority guy but doesn’t want to give it to an Iraqi named Saddam (Iraq War references yay). Matt Dillon sexually assaults a black woman but then he saves her life and he’s suddenly not as bad? Sandra Bullock is rude af to her Mexican maid but then she falls down the stairs. Guess who calls the ambulance? The Maid! She’s not racist anymore! The opening scene features 2 black guys talking about being profiled and how awful it is to be assumed to be criminals…right before they carjack someone. The fact that this film beat Brokeback Mountain, Munich, or the unnominated A History of Violence or Caché is astonishing. Reddit says a lot of hyperbolic things, but one thing is for damn sure: Crash is a truly awful movie lol

Submitted July 22, 2021 at 05:50AM by CapeshitConnoisseur https://ift.tt/3znuRM1