The movie Crash was actually quite a good movie to watch. Because of the title, I was expecting more negative outcomes than those that actually happened and beginning with a physical car crash was a good way to get our brains ready to clearly see the desired reaction that comes into play when cultural differences cause a verbal, psychological, or physical crash. To crash is to make noise, collide or break, and the result of a crash can be small or destructive. The crashes within this movie other than the first one and the one in the final moments, are all about people from different cultures having run-ins with one another or with law enforcement. Within the time limits of this movie we see bad people doing good things and good people doing
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Police are trigger happy” (9:53) yet the only one with a gun is the speaker who uses the gun to steal a car from a white couple. Throughout the movie the man who is the leader of these two keeps trying to convince the other man that their culture is always discriminated against so what they are doing is not bad, just getting their due. He is using negative words to create negative reactions or crashes. We also have a family of one culture with the younger generation trying to make the older understand the difference of communicating with other cultures instead of getting frustrated, misunderstood and angry. She is using positive words to avoid cultures crashing and the outcome is saving two lives. In one more instance two black men are calling each other the same negative names and their voices and body movements continue to spiral upward the whole time (111).
Emotional blockage. The comment of a white civilian women, “I wake up angry everyday” (124), tells us that it is not only law enforcement that need to understand where their emotions come from before dealing with others. Nor is it minorities that only feel angry about their life. Whatever the reason, it is necessary for civilians also to learn that bias and prejudices toward minorities can be the cause emotional and even potential physical crashes which have to be dealt with by law enforcement. This is where cross culture communication needs
Police are trigger happy” (9:53) yet the only one with a gun is the speaker who uses the gun to steal a car from a white couple. Throughout the movie the man who is the leader of these two keeps trying to convince the other man that their culture is always discriminated against so what they are doing is not bad, just getting their due. He is using negative words to create negative reactions or crashes. We also have a family of one culture with the younger generation trying to make the older understand the difference of communicating with other cultures instead of getting frustrated, misunderstood and angry. She is using positive words to avoid cultures crashing and the outcome is saving two lives. In one more instance two black men are calling each other the same negative names and their voices and body movements continue to spiral upward the whole time (111).
Emotional blockage. The comment of a white civilian women, “I wake up angry everyday” (124), tells us that it is not only law enforcement that need to understand where their emotions come from before dealing with others. Nor is it minorities that only feel angry about their life. Whatever the reason, it is necessary for civilians also to learn that bias and prejudices toward minorities can be the cause emotional and even potential physical crashes which have to be dealt with by law enforcement. This is where cross culture communication needs