Crash is a controversial movie centered around a group of characters who all eventually become connected in some way. The two main themes of the movie are racism, and ethnocentrism. Throughout the course of the movie I noticed many of the characters were exaggerated forms of themselves. For example, Jean Cabot was the rich wife of a politician, and she was essentially every stereotype of a rich white lady you could think of. I found that Officer John Rayan and Anthony were very similar characters, in the way that racism was the defining personality trait. They were both ethnocentric and believed that their race was superior and any other person not of their race was out to get them. Throughout the course of this movie I made several pitfalls
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Which is “…mental activity by which we draw broad conclusions from particular experiences” (119). Almost every main character in this movie besides Daniel either overgeneralized an entire race of people or stereotyped them. Officer John Rayan was the most noticeable culprit of this, with sexually harassing a woman because of her skin color, and causing his father to be refused medical treatment because of his racist comments to a woman who worked at the hospital. Then there was Officer Tom Hanson who was the most unfortunate victim of this pitfall. In the beginning I was rooting for him but by the end he turned into a worse monster than his ex-partner Officer John Rayan. After finishing the movie Crash I was surprised at how much of an emotional response I had to some of the scenes in the movie. I actually felt extremely uncomfortable throughout most of the movie because of the large amounts of violence and racism. Over the course of the movie I found myself falling into several pitfalls of critical thinking like Unwarranted Assumptions, The Either/ Or Outlook, and Double Standards. This movie made me realize how strongly I feel against racial prejudices, and that it is an ongoing issue that can happen to anyone and not just a story you see on the
Which is “…mental activity by which we draw broad conclusions from particular experiences” (119). Almost every main character in this movie besides Daniel either overgeneralized an entire race of people or stereotyped them. Officer John Rayan was the most noticeable culprit of this, with sexually harassing a woman because of her skin color, and causing his father to be refused medical treatment because of his racist comments to a woman who worked at the hospital. Then there was Officer Tom Hanson who was the most unfortunate victim of this pitfall. In the beginning I was rooting for him but by the end he turned into a worse monster than his ex-partner Officer John Rayan. After finishing the movie Crash I was surprised at how much of an emotional response I had to some of the scenes in the movie. I actually felt extremely uncomfortable throughout most of the movie because of the large amounts of violence and racism. Over the course of the movie I found myself falling into several pitfalls of critical thinking like Unwarranted Assumptions, The Either/ Or Outlook, and Double Standards. This movie made me realize how strongly I feel against racial prejudices, and that it is an ongoing issue that can happen to anyone and not just a story you see on the