I've watched movies running the gamut of genres, including some of the most gruesome splatter films including _I Spit On Your Grave_, the _Hostel_ franchise, the entire (so far) _Saw_ franchise, and even _The Human Centipede_.... but nothing I've watched has ever made me as uncomfortable as this film did. It's easy to see why it won Best Picture...and it's easy to see the supposed indifference and blasé attitudes of some of the comments on here: this movie hits all of us right where we live, and for some, it's preferable to shrug it off and say, _"Meh, whatever."_ than it is to admit _"I saw myself in this movie, and it was not pretty."_ The truth - and it's revealed here - is that we all have prejudices, we all have biases, we all stereotype other people just because they're different than we are. And we paint with a really broad brush in spite of what comes out of our mouths. This movie reveals that, and it's extremely unsettling and uncomfortable...which is why there are so many half-hearted "whatever" comments about it. None of us want to face the truth that we fall into the same traps, prejudices, and feel the same scorn and disdain for others as what is so elegantly portrayed in _Crash_. I applaud the entire cast and crew of this movie for an absolutely amazing performance and for peeling back the layers of who we are and showing us how ugly society really is. There are good and evil in humanity...always have been, always will be. But it's completely unfair of us to paint so broadly the way that we do. This is my second time to watch this, and I'm glad I watched it again. Don't know that I would ever want to sit through it AGAIN, but it definitely bears seeing at least ONCE with a clear and open heart. Very touching, very emotional, and sadly, very revealing of the humanity in all of us.

This movie is very frustrating and melodramatic. We get it, racism is bad. We all have different lives.

It's not an awful movie, but I can't believe it actually got the best picture Oscar over Brokeback Moutain.

Yes, it was a good movie. Yes, it was emotional. And yes, this movie hab great plots, sidestories and so on. But some explanations were so weird and the message is so questionable, that i don't see the point. I don't want to use a Spoiler-Tag so i don't want to explain the story, but sometimes the movie lost me. Other scenes again were faszinating and just right. So is it a bad movie? No, but it bugs me that it has this little mistones. Anyway: A very nice, entertaining, (mostly) good acted movie with a great Matt Dillon cop-role and good characters. 6/10

Absolutely brilliant! This film makes this truth crystal clear: Bad things—from small frustrations to horrible tragedies—will happen in our lives; we can choose to verbally and physically abuse each other, even kill each other, or we can choose to treat each other as we wish others would treat us. It's not going to stop bad things from happening, but we'll be a whole lot happier inside if we choose the latter. And it might reduce the conflicts too.