ANGRY PEOPLE.(Crash)(Movie Review)

If there's an ill-tempered remark that has ever been uttered in the city of Los Angeles that hasn't found its way into Paul Haggis's "Crash," I can't imagine what it is. "Crash" (opening May 6th) is about the rage and foolishness produced by intolerance, the mutual abrasions of white, black, Latino, Middle Eastern, and Asian citizens in an urban pot in which nothing melts. The characters run afoul of each other, say things better left unsaid, and get into terrible trouble. And yet the movie isn't exasperating in the way that movies about steam-heated people often are. "Crash" is hyper-articulate and often breathtakingly intelligent and always brazenly alive. I think it's ...