Movie Analysis : The Film Crash

Paul Haggis directed an Oscar winning film in 2004 called “Crash”, this movie basically talks about racism and the impact it has on the lives of people in Los Angeles. This movie got a good response from the viewers, as it concentrated on some real harsh realities of racism and asked some hard questions which are generally avoided in movies. This movie clearly promotes the a very delicate issue, and hence requires some detailed assessment. I personally feel the movie was good and it portrayed some very common events of racism, I think “Crash” shows realities, but in a not-so-realistic way.

Although the movie Crash aired in 2004, the movie does a phenomenal job at depicting social conflicts that are still evident in 2015. Crash, also deals with wide range of controversies and offers multiple narratives. And since narrative is always a two-way street, the movie does a great job of showing two perspectives of everything. More specifically, it challenges our ethical and moral beliefs in a sense that many of the scenes in the movie reside in the grey area. It shows that human dilemmas are far more complicated then originally anticipated. For example, the movie shows victims at times, can be the perpetrator and vice versa. Moreover, the movie really challenges any preconceived notations that we may have about a fringe minority. For instance, officer Tom Hansen was eulogized by many viewers when he stood up for Camron. But, at the end of the movie he killed an African American man. Does that make him a racist, was there a legitimate threat? Or does that scene all together transcend race? Scenes like these can be found all over the movie. I would recommend the movie Crash to other Inver Hills students because it does a great job of depicting social conflicts, including institutionalized racism, and police brutality. Furthermore, it offers multiple perspectives on each dilemma.

Communication is important in our lives as it enables us to interact with one another, and allows us to form and build upon relationships with other people. However, when communication is not effective or colored by personal biases, it may lead to conflict. In the movie Crash, the characters are faced with a number of social issues, born from their inability to communicate with one another as well as their perceived notions of racial and cultural biases. Through the interactions between the characters this film allows us to understand how interpersonal communication affects individuals be it with strangers, friends, or family.

Crash is a movie about race and stereotypes and its effects on the various people living in the Los Angeles area. The movie boost racial awareness and it requires close observation from the viewer. We see a variety of races including African American men and women, several Hispanics, a Middle Eastern family, and a few Asians. We see the ups and downs of each character and it helps us see where they are coming from, and potentially why they are racist against different people. It seems that we almost begin to feel sorry for the different characters regardless of what they are doing or how they are acting because of each of their circumstances.

Crash is a movie that had several detailed events of sociological concepts. The movie Crash showed that everyone created has good intentions and good hearts but unfortunately they may grow up and learn the prejudices of the world. "Crash" is a movie that brings out racial stereotypes; as the movie is set in Los Angeles, a city with a diverse race of every nationality. The movie starts off with several people being involved in a car accident. We are then taken back to the day before the crash, where we are shown the lives of many of the characters, and the difficulties they may encounter during that day. An LAPD cop is trying to get medical help for his father, but he is having problems with an African American receptionist who won't give

Minsky argues that there is а fundamental and inherent instability in our economy that tends towards а speculative boom. а human being is fundamentally а momentum investor as argued rather than а value investor. Hence during times of speculative boom three types of market players are prominent namely hedgers , speculators and Ponzi investors. Ponzi investors are those which rely on the increase in asset price to refinance their existing debt. Hence а Ponzi investor is safe as long as the asset prices tend to rise. This period of mammoth rise in asset prices is triggered by the herd mentality and the fundamental nature of humans being momentum investors rather than value buyers. Unlike other works

“You couldn’t find a whiter, safer or better-lit part of this city. But this white woman sees two black guys … and her reaction is blind fear” (Cheadle & Haggis, 2004). This quote is from the academy award-winning film Crash, by Paul Haggis. Haggis demonstrates both essentialist and non-essentialist concepts through his characters living in downtown Los Angeles. Crash follows various characters over a thirty-six hour period as their lives intertwine through a series of incidents, and how each individual deals with the racial tension that plagues the city. Haggis’ uses repetition to force the characters to ‘crash’ back into each other

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.

The movie Crash is a fictional movie that introduces characters who all live in Los Angeles and one way or another these individuals’ life interconnect with

The title of this film, Crash (2004), is significant in at least four different ways. The most obvious meaning is mentioned in the opening scene where Detective Graham Waters says “We think we miss that touch so much, we crash into each other just to feel something.” Detective Waters is referring to the hundreds of crashes that occur in Los Angles every day that he believes people “need” to feel alive. Cars and car crashes are major plot devices that are used in this movie to cause people to meet each other. Another significance of the title is a crashing of cultures.

Most people who watch films watch them simply for enjoyment, rarely anyone notices all the work that is done to actually put together a film. Before taking this class I had no idea how much is done by so many different people to make a film flow, to make it engaging and pleasurable for viewers. Now watching films, I pay attention to all minor details and pick up techniques used that I never would 've noticed prior to taking this course, specifically in editing. Editing is one of the major keys that puts a film together in so many different ways. If I brought this up to a student who has never taken a film course I’m sure they would say, “editing isn 't important, all the editor has to do is put shots together”. Is that really all it is? Not even close. In my opinion, without editing, viewers would miss so many important factors that the director and film editor want us to capture in certain scenes or shots. In Paul Haggis’ Crash (2004), there are many intense scenes that use editing, mainly cuts -which is when the camera is focused on one character or sequence, and then changes focus to something else in the blink of an eye- to make the scene flow or to help us notice important details in the scene.

This movie is about a neighborhood in the late 1980’s where there are different ethnicities roaming around the block; Puerto Ricans on one side, blacks on the other side, and the business owners; the Chinese, the Italian, and a white cop. The movie shows how people think of each other even in the modern times. Each group have its own values, and the ideologies of M.L.K and Malcolm X of violence vs. non-violence circulates around the film. Everyone seem to just hate on each other, but not really being into the violent mode, until, all hell broke loose at the end of the movie, which leaves a question of whether the violence was justified.

Crash Analysis I think that it relates to my life by knowing that most people will respond in the attitude that they are being presented. He responded in that way because he was in the heat of the moment having an argument and couldn’t find a simpler way out so he went with what he thought was best. This could also relate to the couple where the women was molested by the cop and she was arguing with him and he responded in a manner that she presented him with.

This paper will provide a broad analysis of the movie "Crash", and yet a specific

The movie with its many poignant scenes helps brings out many explicit and figurative means of Crash. Crash disregards the classic cinema model and puts in many realistic scene that at some times brings out the emotional side of people. A classical cinema “avoids the extremes of didacticism and pure abstraction, but even light entertainment movies are stepped in value judgements” (Giannetti, 405), well realism or realistic scene “ excels in portraying the actual textures and