THE MORALITY OF THE FILM CRASH

It might seem at time that the moral of the story in crash is one of empathy. or altruism. the redemption of society through individual choices and acts that might bind us together and keep society whole. And that might be the case. but even if it is, there is in the very form of a film like crash a sign of the times, and I mean sign in a double sense. crash describes the kind of society that in its dogged insistence on the individual has lost its humanity its society, its wholeness. crash says to us, this is what we have become, for we all recognize this. And in its statement, it poses the question , What, then, can we do? Anonymous encounter strangers helping strangers these are the elements of society when things come crashing down.