一场意外的车祸，把生活在洛杉矶却素不相识的一大群陌生人拉到了一起，在短短的36个小时内，彻底地改变了他们的人生。一个又一个的角色在观众吃惊的目光的注视下，由正义到邪恶、由被伤害者到施暴者不断的转换着……

Crash (2005)

A Brentwood housewife and her D.A. husband. A Persian store owner. Two police detectives who are also lovers. An African-American television director and his wife. A Mexican locksmith. Two car-jackers. A rookie cop. A middle-aged¹ Korean couple. They all live in Los Angeles. And during the next 36 hours, they will all collide.

Detective Graham Waters and his partner Ria get into a car accident en route to investigate a murdered body found in a canyon² overlooking Los Angeles. Ria is ready to snap necks, but Graham explains, "It's the sense of touch…I think we miss that sense of touch so much that we crash into each other just so we can feel something."

He ain't kiddin'. Crash begins at the end, after 24 hours that have not only irrevocably changed Graham's life but also the lives of several other L.A. denizens³ who have inadvertently collided with one another.

We go back to the previous day and meet an angry Brentwood housewife and her D.A. husband, who have their car stolen at gunpoint by two carjackers; a paranoid Persian store owner who tangles⁴ with a kindly⁵ Mexican locksmith; a rookie LAPD cop and his veteran partner who harass⁶ an affluent⁷ black couple and then later, ironically, save them in separate, hair-raising incidents.

Black and white, victim and aggressor, there doesn't seem to be a right or a wrong as things escalate⁸ and culminate⁹. The only common thread is the fact that life is too short to be filled with fear and intolerance.

重点词汇

D.A.  District Attorney, 地方法院检查官