Paul Haggis

Crash is Paul Haggis’s famous follow up to his first critically acclaimed film Million Dollar Baby, and with his reputation on the line, Haggis has rolled up his sleeves to create a film that in many eyes is a rarity. Crash is a hackneyed masterpiece. The film portrays the lives of many characters over thirty six hours as they encounter taut situations of racial discrimination. Among the mass of characters that plague the film, several others stand out and prove to be more than their one dimensional stereotype. Characters like Jean Cabbot (Sandra Bullock), a rich and spoiled housewife whose nerves erode and shatter after being carjacked; Officer Ryan (Matt Dillon), a son of a sick father and racist cop who sexually harasses a black women; Daniel (Michael Peña), a Hispanic locksmith who aims to provide for his naive daughter Laura despite being stereotyped as a “gang member” and Farhad (Shaun Toub), a Persian shopkeeper with an ‘Osama’ face of which he holds a grudge to after the disturbing 9/11 disaster. Are you exhausted yet? I know I am. Set in modern day Downtown LA, all characters are linked together by a chain of events that has turned into a cascade of problems and mistakes. Crash is a perfectly good film for it’s sad tone and I have to say that I enjoyed it far more that I should have but that doesn’t mean it’s perfect.…

The 2004 movie “Crash”, produced by Paul Haggis, is about the different lives of a few people around the same community that are dealing with social and racial issues. In this movie we see some of the different stories of each character connect to each other. For example, one of the character’s story revolves around Peter Water, and another story focused on revolves around Detective Graham Waters. Both characters are brothers, and through the film we see how the actions of Peter water, who is…

The Oscar winning film (2004) “Crash” was coordinated by Paul Haggis. The acclaimed film earned rave surveys from normal viewers, as it got some information about bigotry on an individual level and demonstrated some unforgiving substances that are typically maintained a strategic distance from on movies. The film advances racial mindfulness, however like any discussion about race, it demands close review. "Crash" tells a connection of stories based in the city of Los Angeles. The…

The film, “Crash” by Paul Haggis is immensely filled with racial inequalities. Within the film it did not matter what race a person was, because at the end of the day each character did not think that any other race was equal with their own. The significance of this film is distinct, and relates to racial inequality in Sociology in many different ways. There were racial slurs, acts of discrimination, and acts of prejudice against every race that was shown throughout the movie. However, the main…

In society today race relationships and racism continue to shape our everyday lives. The fact of the matter is that we are either the person who is being judged because of our appearance and background or we are the person judging. Living in a society where white supremacy regimes race, class, and gender affect the types of privileges people have in comparison to others. Rights are always cut back when they conflict with the economic interests of the system. In the film Crash directed by Paul…

Man has never run out of ways to express the underlying beauty of human struggles and define the delicate connections humans build. Paul Haggis is one of these artisans, his tremendous work with film in the movie Crash speaks of the stark differences the citizens of the vast city of Los Angeles and yet manages to emphasize the key similarities all these characters have: their relationships with the individuals that surround them. One such relationship featured in this 2004 Drama film is that of…

Authors use a variety of approaches in mass media when confronting prominent social issues. Racism is an issue that plagues society through the isolation and ill-treatment of certain minority groups. Both Paul Haggis’ film Crash and Erica Pandey’s essay Why My Father Can’t Grow a Beard confront the existence of racism in Post-racial America. Haggis tells a story about the struggles a middle-aged Muslim man has to go through in the aftermath of the 9/11 attacks. Pandey recounts a brief encounter…

Saint Augustine was born is 354 in a North Africa province part of the Roman Empire. Growing up in the Roman Empire was a major influence on his work. He is well known for his theological teaching on Christianity and developed much of its doctrine. Augustine wrote on political philosophy as well and developed his own ideas on what the ideal state is. Augustine believes that government is an act of God and its function is to allow people to live good lives. The state is a part of God's…

Even the slightest expressions from human could have a meaning, and those expressions are called micro expressions. The term micro expressions is labeled as a “very brief facial expressions, lasting only a fraction of a second” (Micro Expressions). In other words, micro expressions only exist in a blink of an eye that human couldn’t capture. Furthermore, human ways of interaction are deeply connected to emotions and function through a system of “social signals: facial expressions” (Jack,…

Martha Graham’s “Lamentation,” like many of her other works, is a direct expression of emotion; an expression of emotion through body movements. Graham was known as the “Mother of Modern Dance” and for her technique “contraction and release.” She also focused on the stability and strength of the body and keeping its control. This technique was in efforts to develop and maintain flexibility in the spine and hips, specifically in a seated position. “Lamentation” was created in response to the…