Isms In The Movie Crash

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In the film “Crash” the “Isms” were played out from the beginning. The first “Isms” I noticed was the car accident scene and the Chinese women tells the police officer “Mexicans don’t know how to drive” and the scene where the two African American males were walking out of the restaurant and one of the say that he wasn’t going to pay for a service where they didn’t offer him coffee because of his skin color, the other male individual was stating he didn’t get coffee because he did not ask for it not because of his skin color, both of these scenes are representing the racism “ism”. In society labeling is very common like it or not many commercials, television series show stereotypes of all races and as soon as society notices it is considered …show more content…
The scene when the Persian women is asking for any ammunition as long as it fits the gun and the Caucasian man makes a dirty comment “a dozen more that will fit any size hole, just depends upon how much bang you can handle” the other incident where the Caucasian police officer starts molesting the African American women in front of her husband to get some sort of reaction of the husband to give them a reason to lock him up, both of these scenes is why feminism is the new ism …show more content…
It is not the product simply of individual failure but is woven into society, and the material consequences of it are dramatic. During this film I did witness white supremacy, I first noticed when the Caucasian police officer molests the African American women and his peer does not do anything because of intimidation of losing his job. I also noticed white supremacy when the black officer wanted to tell the truth about the detective but the Caucasian told him if he did the criminal records of his brother would not be terminated, so the Caucasian manipulated the black man with his personal life. Another white supremacy I noticed was that the author of the film makes the Caucasian a superhero after he save the life of the women he molested. One more incident where I noticed white supremacy was at the end of the movie where the Caucasian officer kills the African American male because he felt threatened on how he was dressed and the smart remarks he was making, so he felt in danger and shot the black male but when he noticed he was wrong about him he was quick to dump the body somewhere and make it look like it was a gangbang incident so when the police find him the last thing crossing their minds is that a white man killed

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