Crash

Saw the movie Crash last night.  Went to sleep with it in my head, woke up before my alarm still going over it, had to drag my head out of it when I got to work.  It is not an easy movie to watch, but it's beautifully done.

I was pretty skeptical when I heard this was a movie "about racism."  Tough to make that sound anything but pedantic.  But this movie is not pedantic, or simple in any way.  And while it's not a feel-good movie with a happy ending, it does not come out to be a tragedy either.  Some of the story threads within it are tragic.  The stakes are high enough that pretty much everything that doesn't turn out to be a tragedy feels like a miraculous escape.  But, well, that's not entirely unlike life.

It brought me near tears.  Not tears of sadness, really.  Once, I nearly cried with relief.  But mostly what I was feeling was just recognition. 

Go see it.