The Movie Crash

The movie Crash is about the omnipresence of racism and racial stereotyping that is displayed within American culture. The title of this movie conveys significance to the literal and metaphorical meanings expressed throughout the film. The movie begins with the scenery of a car crash and the final scene closes with a car crash. There were several other crashes that took place in the movie, and each one of them signified a turning point in that character’s life. Many characters are seen to endure breakdowns, mishaps or in other words, they “crash”. This is evident when the Persian shop owner hits an all-time low and decides to take a shot at Daniel, or when the black man is shot by the “good” cop in his car at the end of the movie. The character’s

The movie, Crash is a 3-time Academy Award Winner with an all-star cast consisting of Sandra Bullock, Matt Dillon, Don Cheadle and many others. However the one character that spoke most to me is the Persian man named Farhad who is acted by Shaun Toub. The movie introduced Farhad in the beginning of the movie as a Persian man with his adult daughter buying a gun at a gun shop but having difficulty due to racism. Throughout the movie we see Farhad struggling with racism directed towards him and how he fuels this anger towards others. The entire theme of the movie is centered on racism, it focused on how racism is prevalent in life daily and cannot be avoided yet everyone should treat others with an open mind and respect.

The film Crash by Paul Haggis is a film involving issues of race and gender, which is viewed through the intersecting lives of strangers seen through an auto accident/crash in Los Angeles which opens the film. This film is trying to symbolize what goes on in the world today in regards to racism and stereotypes. Paul Haggis tries to make a point on how societies view themselves and others in the world based on there ethnicities. This movie intertwines several different people 's lives, all different races, with different types of beliefs. Such ethnicities include Caucasians, African Americans, Hispanics, Asians and Middle Eastern. This film includes conflicts on both sides of the picture from cops and criminals as well from being rich or

The movie Crash is a film that was released in 2005 that follows the lives of everyday citizens from different ethnic and racial backgrounds in Los Angeles, California. Within the lives of the citizens, the people try to get through hardships as each of the several stories within the film “crash” into on another. With the film focusing race, family, and gender, the theme of this films shifts often. Even though the movie has multiple themes, the main theme of the movie is that once you look past their race, gender, and their socioeconomic status, each of these characters have similar hardships that they try to overcome throughout the move. Each character no matter what their race is struggles just as much as the rest do. Not one person in that

In the film Crash (2004), the director’s use of internal conflict reveals that the main idea of the film, which is that some people stereotype others based on their skin color or countries of origin without knowing them, which is dangerous because it can lead to violence and unrest. Haggis, the director, uses the film to suggest that people should not judge anyone just because of their skin color or countries because it may cause people to hate each other.

The society in which we live is made up of variations of everything. From different shades of skin color to the amount of capital someone owns. This can play a crucial role on an individual, for instance the way they perceive others and also the way they perceive themselves. Paul Haggis’s movie “Crash” conceptualize on this idea and interpret it in an in entirely different way; so that we can see that there are reasons and motives to why our society is separated this type of way. The movie is full of many sociological issues, such as gender, race, and social class. The movie is centralize around racism, and wants to give its own interpretation on racism, the reasons why it happens, and how it can be solved. The setting is Los Angelis, a city just like New York, meaning it is very diverse with many nationalities and social class. And as one knows, in big cities such as LA, individuals do not intermingle amongst each other. This is what the movie does; it manipulatively connected every single character with each other to create a chain of conflicts.

He spends a majority of the film spouting off comments about how mistreated black people are. He does not bother to actually pay attention to what is being said or done around him, preferring to paint everyone else black with the same racist brush. He often sees bias where there is none. He narrowly misses being caught up in a shoot out with police and as a result of that incident, he becomes enlightened to the fact that things are not always as they seem to him. After his epiphany, Anthony later shows us that he has grown as an individual when he comes across a van full of Asians who were victims of human trafficking and sets them

The racism is portrayed through many different scenes and characters but today I will just focus on Anthony and Peter. The audience of this film is mainly on all Americans particularly in Los Angeles (L.A). The secondary audience internationally would be white dominated countries. The context of this film is based off the L.A riots and the Rodney King bashings. The purpose is to inform the audience what happened in the past and what various people of colour had to deal with in the past.

The 2004 film Crash, directed by Paul Haggis, brings to the forefront of the audience’s mind the prevalence and harmfulness of racial discrimination and xenophobia. The movie’s screenplay was written by Paul Haggis and Bobby Moresco. The movie seeks to condemn the common use of racial stereotyping, racial discrimination, and xenophobia within society. Every piece of the movie works towards the end goal of showing the true horrors that these actions inflict.

Film is an artistic expression that does not always receive the recognition it deserves. A film can change a person’s life, his or her perspective, and the world around them. When people think of the word crash, they think of car wrecks and injuries, something breaking, or something declining. Consequently, people do not always consider the other uses: colliding violently with an obstacle, moving or causing to move with force, or something done rapidly or urgently and involving concentrated effort. Paul Haggis’s 2006 film Crash explores racism's unbounded reach, the film’s ability to make even the most affluent characters seem morally bankrupt, and the belief that every choice a person makes can impact the lives of others.

After seeing the movie "Crash" which was directed by Paul Haggis I seemed to have viewed life a little differently. I honestly felt like this movie exposed me to different kinds of social and multicultural situations I could possibly ever think of. The movie gave me many examples of how these events could affect our society in general. As I closely observed the movie I noticed the different behaviors it contained one of them that stood out to me the most was prejudice. I personally view prejudice as a general thought that almost everyone has had at least once in his or her life.

The film Crash directed by Paul Haggis brings multiple points of views from people of different races together that really gives viewers a sense of what they have to go through everyday in society. The film was released on May 6, 2005 and still to this day similar acts of racism and prejudice occur in society that was also seen in the film. Watching the film sheds a new light on how it mentally feels to be racially discriminated and how authorities do not really do anything about it. All the characters in this film had their struggles with racial discrimination but it did not mean that some of them had to rob or kill to get what they wanted or feel safe. This film is perfect for examining social issues in society

2. Did nonverbal communications play a part in this case? Be specific and give examples

Describe how your verbal and nonverbal communication demonstrated caring behaviors towards others in the community setting.

For an example, when we smile during dealing with the customer in the phone, it can help to change the customer mood.