Crash

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Before Million Dollar Baby, the name Paul Haggis wasn't very well known in Hollywood, but after Crash, it's a name that will be hard to avoid.

The screenwriter's writing for Clint Eastwood's boxing drama got people talking, including critics and award presenters, but Crash hits closer to home by addressing racial stereotypes and intolerance in his hometown of Los Angeles.

Who knows how a movie like this would have played out before September 11, but it definitely seems like a worthy project to explore the reason why people fear those who may be different from them.

To do this, Haggis uses an ingenious method of intersecting stories that never moralizes, but shows us how racism is not something the LAPD is guilty of, even though many of the stories involve the police.

Don Cheadle plays the police detective who serves as the focal point between the stories, introduced while sitting in his car with his Hispanic partner (Jennifer Esposito) in L.A.
traffic that is backed up due to a car accident.

From there, the story cuts to Anthony and Peter, two young black men with a lot on their minds, most notably their latest car robbery victims, who turn out to be the district attorney and his wife.

The third crucial characters are a wealthy married black couple, played by Terrence Howard and Thandie Newton, who experience racism firsthand, as they are detained by a corrupt police officer solely because of their skin color.

Crash is indeed an L.A. movie, but the situations show the kind of prejudice that many people have experienced in one form or another during their lives.

Of course, Haggis' screenplay, which is co-written with Bobby Moresco, is quite phenomenal, a real feat in screenwriting when it comes to portraying realistic people and dialog.