Prejudice And Discrimination In The Film Crash

Fear is based on the attitude and perception of a particular person, depending on how that person handles fear, that fear can inevitably turn to hate. In the movie Crash, the audience experiences many emotions that the protagonist 's face. All coming from different cultures and ethnic groups, they all get subjected to prejudice and racism. Throughout the movie, you attain an understanding of how the protagonists are affected by bias and learn how they respond and live in discrimination and, overall how they pertain to hate. There are many situations in the film that show how prejudice and discrimination shape their life. In an excerpt by Andrew Sullivan “What 's So Bad About Hate?” He explains how and why people are prejudice and hate, using Sullivan 's article and ideas, this will aid in understanding and interpreting why prejudice and hate so significantly influence their actions. What the audience first experience in understanding prejudice is at the beginning of the film, the audience is presented with two black men. They get rejected coffee and blame it on being black in society, they then continue to steal a car from a white couple and discuss how they deserve the car because they were white. During that scene they spoke …show more content…
I assume, you assume, we all assume, but when does it cross the line in actual hate crimes. When a person gets angry and blurts out obscenities over your skin and your beliefs, are they truly hating over that race, or just mad at that person in particular? As Sullivan puts it, hate is only allowed in society when we as Americans allow it, we judge based on what we experience or what we were taught but if you allow prejudice and discrimination to take over and change you into that stereotype then you have fallen victim and furthering the stereotype of your race and beliefs “hate-victims are often hate-victimizers as