Racial Stereotypes In The Movie Crash

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Alexandria Donnan Who takes care of whom? All a father needs to hear is his little girl screaming, “Daddy” to know something is bad is going to happen, and that is exactly what Daniel knew when Lara came running towards him straight in the harms way. Set in modern day Los Angeles, the Oscar-winning movie Crash, directed by Paul Higgins, attempts to unabashedly expose racial prejudice in this country through the depiction of numerous characters of different cultural backgrounds whose lives intertwine in multiple crisis situations. This movie though does not only point out racial stereotypes but also relationships and generalizations that people automatically make. The film came out in 2004 and is still…show more content…
We learn that there was a bullet that came threw her window and this was very scary for her. As a child she would not know why this happen only that it was scary. When Daniel, gives her the magic cloak, it provides Lara the reassurance that she is brave and safe. Due to this, and her love for Daniel, she jumps out in front of the gun that Fraham is pointing at Daniel. She does not think about the evil man behind the gun but only that she needs to protect her papa. Many grown adults would never jump in front of a gun, even for their parents. They would be too scared and afraid to die, causing them to freeze. The courage that Lara shows, gives an example of her innocence in what is happening around her. As each one of us grows it seems that the courage that comes along with a child’s innocence is lost. Crash is a movie that tugs at its audience’s emotions. It was a very controversial movie but shows the love that is in relationships and that children tend to take care of their parents. When becoming a parent their child helps them grow and be all that they can be as they support their children to be all they can be. A parent learns just as much from their children as children learns from their parents. A child helps their parent relearn how to trust and love unconditionally. The relationships in Crash help give examples of this type of love and education in a parent-child

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