Just the other day I thought about this movie and realized every montage multi-character movie story seems to suffer from these issues. If Crash were made into a Netflix mini series, perhaps it would have more depth and range. If it was made by a team interested in telling a story about race from the perspective of the marginalized communities, we might have had a more complex story.

What you seem to have trouble with is the simplicity of the story telling, but that has been a feature of mainstream cinema for some time, and tackling complex subjects is often relegated to indie films or HBO series. Even series need to have ratings, so their character arcs are exaggerated for dramatic effect.

I don’t think anything we’re watching right now will age well either. Ten years from now, we’re going to wonder why we allowed social media to affect discourse in our country and why original content produced by Netflix and Amazon were so hyperspecific to our needs that we couldn’t have a national conversation about a subject.

I’m not saying we need another Crash or a basic racist film, but we do need basic intro 101 stories to get everyone talking about something. Nowadays, no one is watching the same channel, let alone, being in the same room. How’s a conversation to be had with the people you want to reach?