Life Changing Events Can Change A Person 's Viewpoint

The movie Crash was able to provide us with an inside look at how different cultural and racial dynamics play in our everyday interactions with the people around us. The movie follows along various characters and examines their relationships with the people they have immediate contact with them, the relationship with themselves, as well as the relationship they all seem to have with each other. This essay will be describing the character relationship between Peter Walters and Officer Tom Hansen. The relationship between both of them is not one that stands out throughout the film, but their individual character developments have various similarities that lead both of them to a situation that was not expected.

The movie “Crash”, by Director and Writer Paul Haggis, follows 8 ethnically diverse families/ individuals facing the struggle of modern day racism and stereotypes created and faced in modern Los Angeles, California. These individuals take the roles of individuals living their daily lives within Los Angeles, California while facing stereotypes. The cast portrays: 2 caucasian white male police officers, an African American director and his wife, a white district attorney and his wife, a Persian immigrant family, and a Hispanic father whose occupation is a locksmith. The scene chosen from this film involves the police officers (Officer Ryan and Officer Hanson) pulling over the African American Director (Cameron Thayer) and his wife (Christine Thayer) at a traffic stop. This scene establishes two different types of theoretic sociological concepts of Thomas Theorem and cognitive dissonance.

Discrimination, racism, classism, prejudice and more plague today’s society. These horrible issues do not affect one race, sexes, class, ethnicity, or age group; these issues affect all races, both genders, all ethnicities, and all age groups. For this film analysis, I have chosen to discuss the racism portrayed throughout a three-time Oscar award winning movie called Crash.

In life, you never know if you can see the person you may see on the sidewalk or even across the stress. But, in all realities, that person may have a connection to your life. They can be your future spouse, boss, or the murder who may kill your loved ones. In the movie Crash, everyone has connected to each other in a different or common way. The film takes place in Los Angeles, where minorities are dealing with racial tensions while living in the city. The film broadcasts live of many individuals from different socio-economic classes, which they have life-changing experiences during challenges with prejudices and stereotypes. The film shows interpersonal communication which is “The ability to process and gain information between two or many people” (William 20). The film follows the lives of many resides of different races, social class, careers. The group main character in these groups is John Ryan and Tom Hasen who are Caucasian LAPD police officers. Cameron and Christine Thayer who are a young African American couple. Peter and Anthony who are young adults African- American car thief’s. Farhad who’s an Prussian business owner. Daniel who’s an Latin American locksmith. Lastly, Shaniqua Johnson who an African American administrator.

The movie, Crash, demonstrates the lives of various individuals from divergent socio-economic classes, who have life changing experiences in between their conflicting prejudices and stereotypes. The theme of multiculturalism has also made its influence on the major characters of the movie: a white American district attorney and his wife who is constantly scared of "the other"; two African American thieves who steal their car, a racist police officer who offends an African American TV producer and harasses his wife, a non-racist police officer, a Latino lock maker, a Persian family and another African American detective in the search of his brother.

The movie “Crash” illustrates the reality of the society in which we live. Race, stereotypes, oppression, and marginalization played a major part in the reaction of the individuals in the movie, as it still exists today. Many will say that times have changed and things have become better since the days of slavery, but I cannot agree that this statement is true. This learner was yet young during this era; however, my ancestors endured much agony and pain for no particular reason. Today, minorities continue to deal with misinterpretation of the character without the opportunity to prove who they are individually; regardless, this reader can identify with some of the stereotypes that minorities have been subjected to over the years.

There are many themes in the movie Crash one seems to prevail through and through in the film is racism. The film has the whit police officer who is angry because his father lost if janitorial business due other practices so the officer is angry towards blacks. Young black carjacker continuously through the film talks about black power in the 70s. He feels that blacks should be more afraid of whites than vice versa. Stereotyping of races often causes many dilemmas in the film. For example, the DA’s wife, Jean, tells her husband after the locksmith just changed the locks that she wants them changed because she believes the locksmith to be a gangster because he has tattoos and is Hispanic (Leon-Guerrero, 2016, p.372). In addition the Persian shop owner believes the locksmith to be trying to scam him when he informs the shop owner that the door is damaged. Another them that is prevailed is class disparity which is the inequality and differences in classes. For example, the director and his wife are upper class versus the black detective worked his way up to middle class from a lower class family. Also, the rich DA wife who lives in Brentwood and yet she has a housekeeper is a struggling Latina. By showing the different prejudice and the causes and effects shows how the people in the film grow

Directed by Paul Haggis, the movie Crash (2004) addresses the social issues of individuals living in Los Angeles while revealing that the lives of these “strangers” are all somehow intersected. The film opens at the scene of a car accident where detective Graham powerfully states, that the people of Los Angeles have lost their “sense of touch” (Haggis, 2004). Within a thirty-six hour period, we see how such controversial issues such as racism, discrimination, and prejudice cripple the diverse community of Los Angeles. The movie Crash takes us on a journey through the lives of many individuals of diverse races, from different social classes, though all struggling similar battles. While viewing the movie Crash through a sociological lens, some of the most prevalent sociological terms and theories that are intertwined throughout the film include: stereotyping, race, social class, racism, sexual harassment, discrimination, prejudice, Thomas Theorem’s Theory, deviance, and crime.

The movie “CRASH” is an inspirational film which deals with the lives of many interesting, if not desperate, citizens of Los Angeles. This movie takes place in a thirty-six hour period and shows that the characters in this film are all affected and defined, in one way or another, by racism. This movie is not like other Hollywood movies which follow a norm and a certain dialogue pattern. Crash, on the other hand, show distinct characters whose actions are determined by sheer accident and coincidence. One of the events which is constantly present in this movie, is when people’s assumptions and prejudice prevent them from seeing the real person in front of them. Some of the characters in this film, such as the district attorney’s wife and the

The film, Crash, reveals the lives of numerous individuals from diverse socio-economic classes, who have life changing experiences in between their differing prejudices and stereotypes. Racism and predispositions are major themes that evolve throughout this movie, with sub-stories that are interconnected to one another. As the story unfolds, events begin to play out, and the revelation of how characters begin to change in their perspectives and attitudes toward each other is witnessed. All through time, the world has been racist and intolerant of people indifferent from themselves. But sometimes it isn’t one person racist against another, but rather one person being racist against them self.

The movie Crash illustrates through the use of graphic dialogue and cinematography, the seemingly endless and controversial struggles faced by today 's stereotypes. These people all have different cultures, ethnicities, and backgrounds and are all brought together by issues of racial discrimination because of their differences. In the movie, all the characters are either victims of prejudice and discrimination or are guilty of it. America is a multicultural society and it is everyone 's responsibility to examine their own heart and mind to keep from becoming what we as a society abhor...racists. This movie while controversial is also filled with heartfelt moments that will rip your heart out. Ultimately, it is a matter of doing and

Despite what people want to believe, stereotyping is still prevalent in our world today. The film Crash, directed by Paul Haggis, brings this issue to light as it follows the interactions of individuals from all different races and walks of life as they crash into one another. Crash is intended to show these interactions as more than characters in a movie but as a true reflection of society. The characters in the film all are seen through a predetermined view, which is believed to be real, based off of their race, appearance, and wealth. Individuals from several different races including African American, Asian, Caucasian, Hispanic, and Persian are seen in the film.

The movie Crash was made to show the effects of racial tension between different people after 9/11 took place. The director Paul Higgins did an amazing job in interlinking the different lives in this dramatic film. Each scene contained both psychological and sociological factors that substantiated his efforts in making the audience aware of the race and gender tensions. This analysis will discuss these psychological and sociological factors of four scenes from the movie Crash. This scene opens up showing a view of a modern day city going about a normal day.

The most moving scene in my opinion is when the policeman who was seen fighting against racism shot the man he picked up in his car based on his assumption that the man, who was African-American was attempting to pull a gun out of his pocket. This scene helped to show that we are not truly as different as we may seem, but that something like race can effect someone’s preconceptions about a person or group. Overall, I felt that this movie displayed some of the common attitudes about race in America and how prevalent they are after years of trying to fight them. It is important to consider the cultural theories present throughout the film. One cultural theory that is clearly present throughout the film Crash is the act of stereotyping others.

There are numerous points stand out to me, for point of view. One of the main points is that everyone’s point of view can change everyday from different arguments or topics. I believe that everyone has had events in their life that changed their outlook in life. Even sometimes the smaller things that we do not really remember, but at up over time, or the major events in our lives. Both big and small numerous occasions changed us and our point of view. Also, in a more pacific way, people’s point of view change on things on the way that they saw it or heard it. For example, someones point of view who witnessed something is going to have a different point of view that the person who was a part of something. Everyone gets a different