Winning the race Everybody knows that Crash — that ponderous examination of L.A. race relations — pulled a major upset to beat out BrokebackMountain for Best Picture at this year’s Oscars. What few people know, however, is that Crash wasn’t the only film to tackle the thorny issue of race this year; nor was it, […]
Crash
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Race and coincidence: what brings people together
The new movie Crash opens and closes with the incident of the title, a relatively minor collision of the sort that occurs anywhere in the country on any day of the week, in this case on an unseasonably cold evening in Los Angeles in December. As the long flashback that constitutes the body of the […]
