Crash is a provocative treatise on racism woven together with a series of overlapping threads Written and directed by Million Dollar Baby screenwriter Paul Haggis Crash was inspired by an incident in which Haggis was carjacked at gunpoint in Los Angeles Racism is a universally recognized affliction but Haggis victimization at the hands of black robbers caused him to explore how living in a city where everyone is cocooned in their car contributed to the problem One theory he posits via detective