Article: 'Crash', an impeccably mounted and enthralling plot

New Delhi, March 10 -- Film: "Crash"; Cast: Matt Dillon, Ryan Philippe, Sandra Bullock, Brendan Fraser, Don Cheadle, Jennifer Esposito, Terence Howard, Thandie Newton; Director: Paul Haggis; Rating: **** 1/2

"Why am I always angry?" District Attorney Brandon Fraser's hyper-strung wife Sandra Bullock wants to know at the end of the film.

Why does modern life kill our calmness with such systematic synergy? "Crash", one of the most accomplished pieces of cinema to have emerged from the US in recent months, has one helluva large roster of angry people, seething under the weight of their disgruntled existence, fighting prejudice, combating the constant daily onslaught on their self-regard, but ...

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