The film, Crash, written and directed by Paul Haggis, tells the story of different people and the issues that they face regarding their race. The films main aspect was to look at racial profiling, as well as, the stereotypes that occur with every race. Throughout the movie there remains the constant issue of being able to trust people of different races and how they do not seem to be able to accomplish it. Throughout the movie, the audience constantly sees issues that these people face in their everyday lives. Although I have no experience with racial injustice, I find Crash to have successfully shown racism in the way that people prove to be excessive and insensitive to the subject matter.
The first major stereotype that we are introduced to is when Jean, a white women makes the assumption after seeing a black male walking that he was a threat to her. After she grabbed her husband’s …show more content…
Cameron is pulled over because Christine is performing fellatio on him. They are then ordered to get out of the car and Officer Ryan then proceeds to sexually violate Christine, while Cameron does not say anything because he is afraid of the consequences and is left with no choice, but to stay quiet. Not only is there racial profiling with this scene, but also police corruption. With police corruption, the issue remains within the problem of trust and with racial profiling many people struggle to respect the police. These are two major issues that are finally gaining people’s attention, but this movie was produced in 2004 and just now in 2016 becoming a main topic of the publics’ attention, which goes to show that this movie had the right mindset in terms of racism. It is sad to see throughout the movie the daily struggle that all these people face and the small steps that are taken to fix
The first major stereotype that we are introduced to is when Jean, a white women makes the assumption after seeing a black male walking that he was a threat to her. After she grabbed her husband’s …show more content…
Cameron is pulled over because Christine is performing fellatio on him. They are then ordered to get out of the car and Officer Ryan then proceeds to sexually violate Christine, while Cameron does not say anything because he is afraid of the consequences and is left with no choice, but to stay quiet. Not only is there racial profiling with this scene, but also police corruption. With police corruption, the issue remains within the problem of trust and with racial profiling many people struggle to respect the police. These are two major issues that are finally gaining people’s attention, but this movie was produced in 2004 and just now in 2016 becoming a main topic of the publics’ attention, which goes to show that this movie had the right mindset in terms of racism. It is sad to see throughout the movie the daily struggle that all these people face and the small steps that are taken to fix