In 2004 Paul directed the Oscar winning film Crash, urban drama tracks the volatile intersections of a mult-ethnic people in Los Angeles. Many of the elements delivered by the director in this film by portrayed in extreme match. The movie promotes racial awareness, most likely and conversation about race and the need to have close inspection white privilege. In the movie we will be mainly observing a three-category lens made up of culture, social class, and ethnicity. The movie incoporates many struggles face by today’s racial stereotypes.
Critique on Do Video Games Kill? This article “Do Video Games Kill” by Karen Sternheimer addresses the wide spread idea; video games are the cause for “young killers” (210). Sternheimer believes concern for the influence video games may have on youth is spiraling out of control. She put most of the blame for this out of control concern on the media. She also writes some about politicians and the Juvenile Justice system.
The 2004 best picture awarded film Crash, also sets out to depict and examine racial tensions, and the distance between strangers through character’s interactions with each other. Jean Cabot is an upper class white woman with an abundance of wealth, but has racial tension when her car is stolen. Anthony is a low class African American who lives off the modicum amount of money he receives for stealing cars and turning them into a car shop for money. Through the actions and beliefs of these two characters and many other characters, the whole movie intertwines within itself based on the judgments that total strangers place upon each other. Just as The Grapes of Wrath illustrated social issues of judgment and poverty that took place many years prior to today, it is sad to say that we still face many
Dominique Ramirez 2/8/2013 Period 2nd Crash Essay “You embarrass me, you embarrass yourself.” Cameron Thayer commented to Anthony after Anthony try to hijack him for his truck and got him pulled over by the cops and embarrassed him. What Cameron Thayer means by the quote is that Anthony actions make people look at African Americans as criminals and gangbangers and he can change that by making good decisions. . Anthony illegal activities cause people to judge the entire black race especially black men. Cameron is trying to get through to Anthony that his actions reflects on what people think of him and he can change that by making the right decisions.
Until we as a society take the time to understand the roots of stereotyping and discrimination and take a good look at our own thought, we will never move forward. The movie Crash makes us think outside the box at our own lives and fears, so we can realize that we’re more alike than we think, and we should be judged as an individual not categorized into a stereotyped group. We should behave and try and understand and accept other cultures, customs instead of being
Individuals have also made good arguments about the negative outcome that racial profiling might bring to our society. Obviously it has led the dominant race to have superiority to the minorities – racial discrimination. James Zogby, the president of the Arab-American Institute have made a point that he have seen a lot of dark skinned people being searched and treated with humiliation, which is really wrong – Racial Relations. David Harris, a writer and Professor at Toledo College, have already written a couple of books about racial profiling. He states that law enforcers think that they would be more accurate in targeting a suspicious group, but in reality, what happens is the total opposite wherein officials have inaccurate results in targeting the suspect—Race Relations.
Within the 24 hours of the plot’s duration, Paul Haggis has decided upon presenting thrilling-reality based themes such as oppression, crime, racism, corruption, obligation, indignation. In separate incidents, all different character’s lives collide with each other, purposely leading to further tension and understanding of the overall plot and its assertion. Main characters like a police detective linked to a tragic family faith, an attorney and his pampered wife, two car thieves constantly discussing racism, a racist veteran cop taking care of his sick father, a successful Hollywood director and his wife, a Persian-immigrant father and a Hispanic locksmith, will conduct the audience throughout this social-critical drama. Thus, an “utter entertainment satisfaction” arouses and also may lead to moral and soul-searching. One specific scene, out of 19 scenes, which is called “The revenge”, is going to be discussed in this forthcoming essay.
People are born with good hearts, but they grow up and learn prejudices. "Crash" is a movie that brings out bigotry and racial stereotypes. The movie is set in Los Angeles, a city with a cultural mix of every nationality. The story begins when several people are involved in a multi-car accident. From that point, we are taken back to the day before the crash, seeing the lives of several characters, and the problems each encounters during that day.
The characters include an African-American detective who is alienated by his mother, and has a gang related brother; a Caucasian District Attorney who has a spoiled wife; a racist police officer with an idealist partner; an African American Hollywood director; a Persian store owner; and a Hispanic locksmith. Crash has an All Star cast which includes Don Cheadle, Sandra Bullock, Matt Dillon, Brendan Fraser, Ryan Phillipe, Terrence Howard, and Thandie Newton. This film portrays racism, but not in the same way as other films about racism. In this film, the victims of racism are also the offenders as different situations and contexts are depicted. Comments about racism are not meant to be cruel; actions and comments made about race come from misconceptions and ignorance about other races.
It has almost become somewhat of a tradition, for ethnic minorities to always be related within a circle of violent behaviour. The media constantly targets youths from different minorities in ways where hegemony uses culture to promote power. In this case it would be the ruling by cultural influence where white people have the power and dominant control over people from ethnic minorities. Set in Long Beach, California, Freedom Writers (2007) puts forward this negative stereotype of people within the ethnic community belonging to a vicious crime filled environment. The characters within the movie belong to a segregated community, where each race is divided into separate tribes.