crash is good

Paul Haggis' film Crash is one of those fifteen-characters-in-six-storylines affairs that falls loudly like a string of dominoes into a too-neat ending. It's also pretty damn good, and everyone comes across with solid, worthwhile performances. The movie is all about cathartic body blows, and how some people roll with them and others collapse from their damage. Poor Don Cheadle, as one of the more decent characters, bears the worst of it; he takes the cruelest blow from his own momma.

I recommend you run out and see it, but gird yourself for a flurry of racial hurt the likes of which you won't find in the average cinematic treatise on the human condition. And maybe if you're lucky, you'll catch that Episode III trailer.

Human condition, indeed.