Crash

Crash2004

Director: Paul Haggis
Stars: Don Cheadle, Sandra Bullock, Thandie Newton, Karina Arroyave, Dato Bakhtadze
Genre: Drama
Rating: R (Restricted)
Runtime: 112 minutes

Movie studios, by and large, avoid controversial subjects like race the way you might avoid a hive of angry bees. So it's remarkable that Crash even got made; that it's a rich, intelligent, and moving exploration of the interlocking lives of a dozen… more »



Anthony:
You wanna listen to music of the oppressor, you go right ahead.

Peter:
How in the lunacy of your mind is hip-hop music of the oppressor.

Anthony:
Listen to it, man. N*gger this, n*gger that! You think people go around calling each other honkies all day? "Hey, honkie! How's business?" "Going great, cracker! We're diversifying!"

Peter:
[changes the station] How about this, huh? How about that? You like that? Man's singing about lynching n*ggers!

Anthony:
And you think there's a difference, don't you?

Peter:
[singing] "Gonna buy me a rope, and lynch me a n*gger!"

Anthony:
You've got absolutely no idea where hip-hop comes from, do you?

Peter:
[singing] "I shoot 'em dead first, but I done broke my trigger!"

Anthony:
You see, back in the '60s, we had smart black articulate black men. Like Huey Newton, Bobby Seale, Eldridge Cleaver, Fred Hampton. These brothers were speaking out, and people were listening. And then, the FBI said, "Oh, no! We can't have that! I know! Let's give the n*ggers some music by a bunch of mumbling idiots, and sooner or later they'll all copy it, and nobody'll be able to understand a f***ing word they say! End of problem."

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