Crash Shown at Mount Holyoke February 9
 As part of
its jam-packed Black History Month event schedule, Mount Holyoke
will present
two screenings of Paul Haggis’s acclaimed
and controversial film Crash. Following the screenings, the College’s
White Privilege Awareness Project will facilitate a discussion
on the film.
The first screening
will take place Thursday, February 9, at 10 pm in the Blanchard
Campus Center Great Room. The second
screening
will take place Friday, February 10, at 4 pm in Hooker Auditorium.
The discussion will follow the second screening at 6:30 pm in
the Williston Library’s Stimson Room.
Crash begins
with a seemingly simple car accident in Los Angeles. The accident,
however, brings together a very diverse group of
people from various races, social classes, cultures, and sectors.
Their lives collide and become intertwined, and the issue of
racism and racial profiling is explored as they work through
their own
fears and inherent prejudices. The film is told through a series
of dramatic, moving vignettes and offers a brave and unique
frankness
in its dialogue and confrontations.
Crash features
an accomplished and talented ensemble cast, with notable performances
from Don
Cheadle, Matt Dillon, Sandra
Bullock,
Ryan Philippe, Brendan Fraser, Jennifer Esposito, Thandie
Newton, and Terrence Howard.
David Denby
of the New Yorker described Crash as “hyper-articulate,
breathtakingly intelligent and always brazenly alive. I think
it’s
easily the strongest American film since Clint Eastwood’s
Mystic River.” Critic Robert Ebert placed it in a group
of films that “have the possibility of making their
audiences better people.” Rolling Stone called it “a
knockout ... alive with bracing human drama and blistering
wit.”
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