Crash IQ Score 110/200
Crash has an IQ Score of 110/200 on TV Intelligentsia's Intelligence Quotient rubric, placing it in the Competent tier.
Engages without demanding much, watchable and reasonably crafted
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IQ = round((Cognitive × 0.4 + Educational × 0.35 + Craft × 0.25) × 4)
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What these dimensions mean
- Cognitive Stimulation: observable narrative complexity, conceptual density, ambiguity, inference, and sustained intellectual demands in the work.
- Educational Value: the density and integration of substantive academic, historical, scientific, cultural, ethical, or practical information in the work.
- Craft & Quality: production excellence in service of the work, its direction, writing, performance, and aesthetic intent.
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The TVI Take
Paul Haggis threads a dozen Los Angeles lives through 36 hours of collision, from Matt Dillon's racist cop pulling over Thandiwe Newton to a locksmith buying his daughter an invisible cloak against the violence outside. The ensemble is strong and the editing interlocks cleanly, both Oscar-winning, but the screenplay engineers its coincidences and states its lesson on prejudice too plainly to earn the reckoning it stages.
A Best Picture winner that tells rather than trusts.
People & Production Paul Haggis · Starz Entertainment · Germany 23 connections
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Crash scored 110/200 (Competent tier) on TV Intelligentsia's published methodology. Source: tvintelligentsia.com/titles/crash/
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