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Title: After School Special
Review: Crash is an 'After School Special' with a Hollywood movie budget. There is a moral at the end of the story and you just might learn something when it is done. That is, the movie watching public is very hungry for easily digestible TV scripted pabulum. Like a very similar movie Magnolia (with the same contrived, sappy music video ending), the formula of the story is a many short vignettes of intertwined lives. Every story is perfectly crafted to exact a cheap emotional response. Corruption, Racism, Greed, all the hot button topics are touched upon to provoke you. If that was not enough, every character is an easily detected stereotype. Which is confusing when the message of the movie is people are more complex than two-dimensional automatons. With these type of 'message movies" all the characters have an epiphany by the end for better or worse. Like an ABC 'After School Special' it doesn't get more complex than that.
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