"Crash" Movie Analysis

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In the movie, Crash, it displays the common stereotypes of different races and misinterpretations of race confusing one with another unknowing the differences. The movie start off as two black males whom are walking out of a café and one is complaining unequal service towards them being that their black while the other one is rational towards the events. As walking down the street he is still talking about it and sees a woman whom grabs a hold of her husband’s arm in sight of them as in a common stereo type of black men whom steal and rob. He explains that the white people shouldn’t be afraid of them and that they are the ones who should be afraid being in a predominately white location. When the couple get in the car the lady’s suspicions are correct in which they carjacked at gunpoint by the two men whom were walking down the street. Another form of misconception of a person based on skin color is the Hispanic male whom is changing the locks on the lady’s door who she believes that he is a gang member and is going to steal one of the keys to come back in rob them. The story follows him to his house where he is seen talking to his daughter under her bed because she thought she heard a gunshot. He goes on to tell her that they moved out of that neighborhood where the bullet came through her window. As telling her this, he is revealed as a good guy, a family man, whom is a non-violent person only wanting the best for his daughter’s safety. As he goes on out to a call to an Pakistan store of which is robbed and in the need for a new lock, changing the lock and coming to a conclusion he tells the store owner that is the door that needs to be replaced. The store owner already troubled by the break in goes off on him telling him that he is cheating him and is going to come back with his friends to rob the place. The next morning the store is trashed with

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