The movie Crash was produced by Lions Gate and also produced by Paul Haggis. This movie was definitely not your regular run of the mill story with the happily ever after ending. I’m not sure what category to but this film under because it fits so many different ones. It shows family loyalty, crime, racism, theft, all the things people usually don’t consider to be good things. It also hits home with a lot of people, the things in this movie are real and true and sometimes hard to watch. This is certainly not a children’s movie, it is directed I think to relay a message to us as Americans how horrible our lives are today and how much little things that impact us can change our lives forever. This movie shows in numerous ways how racism is portrayed in America just from others judging a book by its cover. The white woman who gets scared walking past the two black men, or the Middle Eastern family whose store gets robbed and thrashed just because the person who broke in assumed they were “Rag Heads”. Its hard sometimes not to judge I think we’ve all caught ourselves at least a couple of times judging someone just on their outward appearance, it’s sad but were human and as humans we sin. The spirituality portrayed in this film is somewhat hidden but the part that showed the most love and Christian like attitude in it was the scene where the Son goes into his mothers house, this woman who obviously doesn’t appreciate all the things her son does for her and he fills her refrigerator with groceries. God does things like this for us everyday, sometimes without us even knowing it or even noticing. When things get hard and we give up, God will throw us a bone. It may be small but even someone smiling at you when your feeling down can help enormously. Just like the son was concerned with his mother and wanted to care for her, God cares for us and wants to help us!

Stephanie Lamp

October 12th 2009

UNST WALL-E