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Title: Like everything else in celebrityhood, this has been done before
Review: Crash might be helpful to all the six-year-olds who might not fully grasp the myriad complexities of race and racism. For the rest of us, however, it's more than a little elementary (racism is more than skin deep, oh my!!). And like all things race in America, it must not, it cannot, receive even a teeny weeny speck of negative criticism. Anyone who does not automatically exclaim, "EVERYONE SHOULD SEE THIS MOVIE!!" is automatically branded a racist, when in fact this film inadvertently celebrates robot racism ("white-people-bad-black-people-bad"). It's all so exhausting.I further dump on the movie and most of its reviewers for not giving a big ol' credit to films that were obviously deeply influential: Grand Canyon and Falling Down, to name two. With more subtlety, I see a failed attempt to co-opt the art and rhythm of P.T. Anderson in this reel.Can't we just all generate some new ideas?
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