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Title: Racism: A Crash Course
Review: After being nagged for months by friends who swore by this film, I gave in and borrowed "Crash." I still do not understand how people didn't find this movie extremely offensive, in that it decides to approach racism using pure stereotyped characters. (I don't care if the characters had two-dimensions, people are not one-dimensional or two-dimensional for that matter and this is something that American filmmakers especially tend to forget) To hear this film compared to American classics ranging from "Nashville" to "Mystic River"...it just drives me nuts. Crash was a classic example of how a filmmaker can make a "statement" without ever really saying anything meaningful at all. Perhaps a better title would have been "Tony Danza's Character Doesn't Like African Americans" because that's about all I could take away from this film.
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