Crash (2005)

Crash is one of the most well-crafted and moving films I have seen. I put it up there with Garden State, Love Actually, American Beauty, Grand Canyon, and others. It has a deep underlying spiritual and aural texture that weaves the stories together in a tapestry that appears flawless. The movie asks the question: Are we so lacking in physical and emotional contact that we (for whatever reasons) crash into and shoot at each other out of sheer fear and need? Crash alternates between being intensely suspenseful and emotionally evocative; people's inner core is revealed for who they are under pressure, and if they are lucky they find healing and redemption (or else they continue to seek it). A humanizing film for those that believe we all have good inside the flawed vessels. Five stars.