I will explore these issues as I compare and contrast the two films. The movie Crash combines the many struggles met by today's racial stereotypes into a collection of several related social problems faced by the film's cast. The movie is set in present-day Los Angeles, a city with an ethnic mix of every race. Their stories link during two days in Los Angeles involving an assortment of characters, two car thieves who are constantly speculating on society and race, a bigoted cop and his younger partner, a Hispanic locksmith and his young daughter, the white district attorney and his wife, a police detective with a drugged out mother and a mischief younger brother, a Hollywood director and his wife, and a Persian immigrant father. To Kill a Mockingbird deals with many basic lessons in human nature.
At 12:30 am, Officers Tim and Melanie Singer, husband-and-wife members of the California Highway Patrol, noticed King's car speeding on the freeway. The officers pursued King, and the pursuit attained high speeds. Confrontation Officer Tim Singer ordered King and his two passengers to exit the vehicle and lie face down on the ground. Bryant Allen was manhandled, kicked, stomped, taunted and threatened. "Passenger describes L.A. Police Beating of Driver, Calls it racial," New York Times, March 21, 1991.
This episode is about a teenage stunt driver named Dex, who is beheaded during one of his stunts in which he climbs out of his sunroof to drive his car using his feet. After the accident, the police sirens are heard making everyone panic to get away. The “sideshow” event was sponsored and run by Dex’s girlfriend, who is sees the accident as good for business with her website, and is rather uncooperative when dealing with detectives. After running tire treads, it is found that Dex is run over by his own car by Luke Baylor, a rival of Dex’s that thought that Dex would have appreciate that he took his car so it did not get impounded. After running prints on all of the beer bottles from the event, it is discovered that they all have the same print on every bottle.
Once they got home and were having the locks changed, Jean became immediately angry they sent a “gang member” and wanted the locks changed in the morning. Because of his appearance, which consisted of a shaved head, “prison” tattoos and pants hanging off his butt, she was positive he would go sell the keys to his “amigos.” These somewhat inaccurate stereotypes by Jean were supported from historical and socially constructed events. Since most men who are imprisoned are African American, to Jean and other members of society, this means all black men are criminals and one must be fearful of them. As for the Mexican locksmith, he must be a part of a gang and looking for trouble if he has tattoos and his pants
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.
Poor Interpersonal Communication in Crash COM 200 Instructor Bianca Marino Poor Interpersonal Communication in Crash Crash is a movie that everyone should see at least once. The movie has a very diverse group of characters that show the different thought processes people face regarding stereotypes. A large amount of communication in this movie is expressed through nonverbal communication. Crash portrays many interpersonal communication conflicts, based primarily off of racism, which people face in the real world every day. The deepest interpersonal conflict I noted in the movie was the scene where the hitchhiker got a ride from a police officer.
When she and her husband end up being held at gunpoint shortly after and get their car stolen, a spiral effect is created in her mind and her ethnocentrism grows immensely, making her believe that all cultures different from hers are on a lower level. After this incident, Jean wants her locks changed, and the locksmith is Hispanic. She quickly assumes that since he is Hispanic and has tattoos that he must be in a gang and he will probably Dodson 2 make copies of her keys and give them to his gang members. Racism, prejudice, and stereotyping are all evident in this situation, by Jean’s quick categorization before having met this man. She also demonstrates her prejudice beliefs by the way she
When the Whites were trying to leave the tavern, Mr. Hard got into his truck and followed them hitting other parked cars on the way. Once he made it out of the parking lot, he continued to chase them. Mrs. White called 911 at some point after the bar and before the incident. On her 911 call she reported Mr. Hard chasing them. Mr. Hard caught up with them and hit them when they were turning killing Mr. White and injuring Mrs. White.
Subject: Case Analysis Case: Search and Seizure Background Facts: Joe is a 26 years old man of a foreign decent and is currently a U.S. citizen. He was pulled over by a police officer when he was driving through an affluent Caucasian subdivision. Citing that this is a sobriety checkpoint, Officer Jones orders Joe to step out of the car. When Joe starts questioning the officer about the sobriety checkpoint, the officer becomes very aggressive with him and places him under arrest for “interfering with official police conduct”. After that, Officer Jones get into his vehicle and remove a couple of items.
For example, young girls are found in poor parts of Mexico by rich white men. These men talk to the families and lie to them, saying that they want to take the girls with them back to America. They say they will be treated well and money will be sent back to the family. This kind of story was told by Anthony M. Destefano in his book The War on Human Trafficking: U.S. Policy Assessed that begins, “For the young girls of Santiago Tuxtla, their journey to a personal hell invariably began when those big, fancy American cars drove into the little Mexican town some thirty miles south of the port city of Veracruz” (Destefano, 1). These innocent young girls, who admittedly were not growing up in the best area, were brought into a situation much worse than where they started out.