Character and Criminal Justice Professionals Kelsey Stefaniak 0501599 Criminal Justice Ethics 9/16/11 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. Throughout the movie, there are people from different nations that have to interact with each other and how these prejudices affect their life. The main characters include a Mexican locksmith, a Persian merchant, two black robbers, a black police officer who is brother of one of the robbers, a pair of white police officers, a black TV producer and his black movie star wife, a wasp district of attorney and his socialite wife and some other side characters. This movie was actually based on a real life incident which was a car getting carjacked outside a video store.
The movie "Crash" was a great example of how people of different cultures can be prejudice and stereotypical toward one another. It showed how ideas and feelings are adopted and can be carried down from generation to generation. People tend to place their own culture on a pedestal while placing others that they don't understand beneath them. You see and hear things about a race and assume that all or most act out those same behaviors. People also base those feelings on how a person is dressed.
1. What is the significance of the title? In the begining of the movie there was crime scene which shown a car crash, the word "Crash" is symbolic for the culture shock we experience when in our everyday lives we "crash" into people from many different races, religions, and nationalities. The movie brings out the assumptions we have about ppl from different cultures with whom we interact in the course of our daily lives. 2.
Jose Gomez Crash After I saw the movie Crash, I realized that in our lifestyle we are exposed to stereotype in one way or another, voluntary or involuntary. I understand stereotyping is a classification that society makes about other people, we classify people based on the knowledge and experience that we have about something or someone; it depends on how we grow up and which values we choose for our lives. In addition, I believe, the majority group creates stereotypes because they tend to label minorities. To Illustrate, majorities may catalogue communities for the way they look, race, the language that they speak, and their religious beliefs. Even if we try to avoid stereotyping it is impossible in the world that we live in today, and that
The woman was scared upon seeing them. There is nothing to do with skin color but prejudices are always the root of racial tension. Ironically they were criminals and carjacked Brendan Fraser and Sandra Bullock’s car. Another racial discrimination happened when locksmith Michael Peña was changing the door in Brendan Fraser and Sandra Bullock’s home. Since she was upset by the carjacking, she noticed Michael Peña is a Mexican-American with tattoos on his arm, the first vision she had made was gang tattoos.
In the first scene, an upset, white; Officer Ryan pulls over a Lincoln Navigator thinking he saw a white woman performing a lewd act on the black driver. Although Ryan’s suspicions were partly correct, Christine turns out to be an attractive light skinned black woman. Having to follow through with his inquiry, Officer Ryan asks the two to step out of the vehicle. Christine having had a few drinks gets a little mouthy with the officer as he’s patting down her black husband. Asking his partner for assistance Ryan then starts to perform a very intimate pat down on her, sliding his hands up her loose fitting dress asking if she concealing any weapons.
Discrimination is defined as “the denial of opportunities and equal rights to individuals and groups because of prejudice or for other arbitrary reasons” (Schaefer, 2012, p. 61). Discrimination is throghout the United States. It results itself by prejudice and stereotypes by individuals (Schaefer, 2012). Prejudice is the attitude an individual has towards a group or groups of people and stereotyping is unreliable generalizations of a group of people (Schaefer, 2012). Prejudices and stereotyping are the ideas and thoughts people have about other groups of personss without regard to individual differences.
Moreover, the media contributed to, and continues to play a large role in the stereotyping of the Arab Muslim civilization. This type of behavior goes beyond distorted news broadcastings and into many movies, television shows, magazines, and websites. Often the media portrays the Arabic Muslim civilization as uneducated, close-minded, uncivilized barbaric extremist, and terrorist. The media can be largely to blame for the blasphemy placed on entire civilization based on a few individuals. Many people around the world in different cultures have grown to be ignorant and have allowed themselves to be heavily influenced by the media.
The social, economic and psychological elements make this film what it is, intensifying the feelings and actions of so many people in everyday life. Since our culture as a whole continues to stereotype and show racism to those who “are not like me,” the film stresses this point to every extent. The film is meant to portray life as it really is, although most of us do not want to think of it or see it that way. I do not think it is supposed to scare us as much as to make us realize that this is the world we live in and find humor in some of it. The lighting plays a role in the film also, as the scene goes from daylight to night is seems as if more of the bad things happen at night.
They feared Richard, and some of the white people felt it necessary to act out their racist feelings in order to cover up their fear. White coworkers beat Richard because his boss was kind to him. Richard later had to leave a good job because those racist co-workers would “kill” him. When the principal at Richard’s school had asked Richard to give a speech to a large audience of white and black people, Richard refused to read the principal’s prepared speech. By reading the principal’s speech, Richard was saying what the white power wanted him to say and to Richard this would be giving in to the very thing he hated so much.