With the developments of the last decades, we have removed racism to be encountered at a daily

level. But why do public transportation such as buses have such large windows? It’s to display
the African-American who can’t afford riding in a car, says the movie LA Crash, showing in
many different examples how racism still continues in our modern and diverse society in many
subtle ways.

The best performance here is the one done by the rapper Ludacris. The character he’s playing is
an African-American man who’s aware of the racial problems surrounding Blacks and people of
other ethnic backgrounds. He is especially good at expressing the emotion that an
African-American man would feel when complaining about how they’re still being racially
discriminated against and not free. His tone and attitude nonetheless are very similar to how
Malcolm X speaks, which brings more realism into his role.

Overall, I find the content of the movie to be a bit more exaggerated. In our current society, no
one goes around to express racial insults at each other at the face distance. Racism however
continues in other subtle ways, such as wage gap or difference in standards of life quality. The
movie however caught one of these aspects, namely that African-Americans are treated more
harshly by the police than they should be.

The soundtrack was really weak, I don’t remember any of the songs from the film. As the
number of people in the cast was too much, I had a hard time understanding the story because of
the odyssey-like flow of events and characters that are only loosely coupled with each other. The
director may have intended to, once again, show in an exaggerated way these many figures of
many different backgrounds interact with each other. I, however, find the fact that the director is
trying to increase the quantity of the figures instead of their quality to be too simple, almost
cheating, to convey the message of the plot. As mentioned before, I suspect that the message is
the fact that racism still exists in our society in many different, perhaps subtle ways, albeit not
obvious at first sight.

I don’t recommend this movie. It’s depiction of the racial circumstances in our current society is
either overstated or outdated. As a cinematic work, it fails to provide a cohesive plot and
constellation of figures. These aspects make it unworthy of being watched, if you don’t want to
waste your time with it.