Abraham Lincoln once said, “Achievement has no color.” He was referring to how terrible racial stereotypes are. Stereotypes does not help mankind, but tears us apart. My definition of stereotypes, is prejudgment of somebody based on their looks, religion, or race. In the movie “Crash” there are a lot of terrible stereotypes. Crash is very complicated at first because it switches back and forth between several key stories. But of the key story characters connect at the end in some sort of way. One of the stories that start in the beginning of the movie cops found a dead African american. Detective Waters is on the crime scene investigating the body. Then the movie jumps back in time. But later on Detective Waters finds out it was his younger
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Then the movie changes to the scene when Anthony and Peter are leaving a Italian restaurant talking how racist the servers were. Then they proceed to rob at gunpoint the districts of attorney 's SUV. After that the movie changes scene to Rick the districts of attorney’s house where his wife Jean is getting worked up. She thinks the Locksmith is a Latino gangbanger who is going to sell her key to thieves. Soon after that the group of African Americans hit and run over Choi who is trying to get into his van. Then the movie changes to the scene when Cameron a African american hollywood director and wife getting pulled over. The Officers Ryan and Hanson pulled them over for suspicious activity. It turns out that Officer Ryan sexually assaults Cameron 's wife Christine which is also African american. Camron could not do anything about it because he did not want to get arrested. This movie Crash shows prime examples of stereotypes. Basically every character 's experiences social stereotypes in the film crash. Anybody could be …show more content…
The locksmith turns out to be Daniel. Jean is very apprehensive because Daniel is a Latino. Jean interrupts Rick and says, “She wants the locks changed again.” Jean continues, “Maybe the next time they won’t send a gang member to change them.” She thinks that Daniel will sell the locks to fellow gang members because of his “prison tattoos.”
Moreover, another scene that shows stereotypes is when Anthony and Peter are leaving the restaurant. They are walking down the street approaching Rick and Jean. When Jean Sees that they are going to walk pass Anthony and Peter she clinches onto Rick’s arm for protection. Jean is judging Anthony and Jean on how the are dressed. On top of that they were African American. According to Anthony, “She got colder as soon as she saw us.” If Anthony and Jean were white do you think Jean would of reacted that
Then the movie changes to the scene when Anthony and Peter are leaving a Italian restaurant talking how racist the servers were. Then they proceed to rob at gunpoint the districts of attorney 's SUV. After that the movie changes scene to Rick the districts of attorney’s house where his wife Jean is getting worked up. She thinks the Locksmith is a Latino gangbanger who is going to sell her key to thieves. Soon after that the group of African Americans hit and run over Choi who is trying to get into his van. Then the movie changes to the scene when Cameron a African american hollywood director and wife getting pulled over. The Officers Ryan and Hanson pulled them over for suspicious activity. It turns out that Officer Ryan sexually assaults Cameron 's wife Christine which is also African american. Camron could not do anything about it because he did not want to get arrested. This movie Crash shows prime examples of stereotypes. Basically every character 's experiences social stereotypes in the film crash. Anybody could be …show more content…
The locksmith turns out to be Daniel. Jean is very apprehensive because Daniel is a Latino. Jean interrupts Rick and says, “She wants the locks changed again.” Jean continues, “Maybe the next time they won’t send a gang member to change them.” She thinks that Daniel will sell the locks to fellow gang members because of his “prison tattoos.”
Moreover, another scene that shows stereotypes is when Anthony and Peter are leaving the restaurant. They are walking down the street approaching Rick and Jean. When Jean Sees that they are going to walk pass Anthony and Peter she clinches onto Rick’s arm for protection. Jean is judging Anthony and Jean on how the are dressed. On top of that they were African American. According to Anthony, “She got colder as soon as she saw us.” If Anthony and Jean were white do you think Jean would of reacted that