Crash (2004 film)

Crash is a 2004 ensemble drama film cowritten, produced, and directed by Paul Haggis. The film is about racial and social tensions in Los Angeles, California. A selfdescribed passion piece for Haggis, Crash was inspired by a reallife incident, in which his Porsche was carjacked outside a video store on Wilshire Boulevard in 1991.

Today The film begins with commentary by passenger Detective Graham Waters Don Cheadle having suffered a car accident with his partner Ria Jennifer Esposito. He mentions that the denizens of Los Angeles have lost their sense of touch. Ria and the driver of the other car, Kim Lee, exchange racially charged insults. When Waters exits the car, he arrives at a police investigation crime scene concerning the discovery of a dead kid.Yesterday While purchasing a revolver at a gun store, Farhad Shaun Toub, a Persian shop owner, and his daughter Dorri Bahar Soomekh, argue in Persian over what box of bullets they should buy. The gun store owner grows impatient and degrades the two of them by referring to Farhad as Osama. Farhad clarifies that he is an American citizen but the store owner continues exchanging racially stereotypical insults at Farhad and has the security guard escort him out the store. Dorri demands the store owner to give her the gun or give her back the money. After the store owner gives the gun to Dorri, she asks for the ones in the red box. The store owner asks why, but Dorri does not answer and insists on buying that particular box. In another part of town, two black men, Anthony Ludacris and Peter Larenz Tate, argue over racial stereotyping of African Americans after Jean Cabot Sandra Bullock, the wife of the local district attorney Rick Cabot Brendan Fraser, walks in another direction whilst fearfully staring at them. ........

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