Cerash

In the 2004 film ‘Crash’ directed by Paul Haggis as an audience we believe that Haggis portrays the realism of racism and stereo typing within our society and how easy it is for us to judge and misjudge people by their appearance, values, beliefs and race. Haggis uses various types of aspects and techniques to portray the message or themes and ideas he is trying to give to the audience such as: characteristics, dialogue, costume, music and camera shots. Haggis uses theses aspects and techniques through the charterers, especially through the protagonist Daniel. This has helped me to gain knowledge and understanding about how easy it is for us to make racial and stereotypical comments about people we don’t know, how we all have different opinions, how sometimes these comments are caused by fear and how it eventually separate us.

In the two scenes I am critically analysing from this film, the first scene ‘Daniel the locksmith’ shows the realism of racism and stereotyping and how easy and quickly it is for us to judge one another on their appearances and race. This is showed through the characters and the usage of dialogue, costume and camera shots. We as an audience then see how the director has manipulated us into making stereotypical views based on what we see in the first scene which directly relates to how we are in real life. The second scene ‘Daniel and Lara’ shows that all views are flawed. This is showed through the protagonist Daniel and through the usage of dialogue, music and close-up camera shots. We then realize that the stereotypical views about the protagonist Daniel in the first scene are then proved not to be true.
In the first scene “Daniel the locksmith’ Jean’s character shows an immense amount of anger but also a prominent stereo-typical attitude. Based on one experience Jean has had she then proceeds to discriminate against Daniel, a Mexican male who comes to her house to change her door locks. While Daniel is changing the locks in Jeans