Theme Based on the Movie Crash, Screenwriter Paul Haggis
There are racisms, prejudice, and stereotypes that we faced everyday of our lives in this world. We may not see it, but consciously we know it is there. In contribution to this, the movie "Crash" written and directed by Paul Haggis shows individuals, such as, family members, business people, working people, and strangers say the most harmful and violent thing to each other. Every character in the movie have their own scenario or irony facing a range of prejudice: gender, class, and, above all, race. Crash is not just a matter of colliding cars against each other but also an indication of culture clashing with each other. In addition, the cars or someone or something relating to a vehicle is also a symbolism reflecting the characters or the setting. In the following, I will discuss examples of relations of the people in the movie that connects with vehicles.
In the beginning of the movie, there was car wreck between an Asian woman and a black detective cop 's Latina partner (Jennifer Esposito). The Asian woman accused the Latina for the wreck by saying "Mexican can 't drive." The Latina said that the Asian lady was too short the she could not see the top of her steering wheel and the Asian lady should be the cause of the wreck. This conveys the stereotyped and assumptions of that everyday Americans of all races face in L.A.
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Another scenario is two black men (Larenz Tate and Ludacris), walking in the middle of L.A. downtown, talking about how white people are always getting better service than black folks. Ludacris was getting mad about the waitress, also black, serving white people because "black people don 't tip" and "she wasn 't [going] waste her time." This represents racial discrimination is everywhere and even in the professional field, people can come across discrimination of all kind. Plus, Crash also display humor in the scene of Ludacris 's friend saying, "how come you didn 't tip?" and he replied, "Because she was giving bad service."
In the beginning of the movie, there was car wreck between an Asian woman and a black detective cop 's Latina partner (Jennifer Esposito). The Asian woman accused the Latina for the wreck by saying "Mexican can 't drive." The Latina said that the Asian lady was too short the she could not see the top of her steering wheel and the Asian lady should be the cause of the wreck. This conveys the stereotyped and assumptions of that everyday Americans of all races face in L.A.
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Another scenario is two black men (Larenz Tate and Ludacris), walking in the middle of L.A. downtown, talking about how white people are always getting better service than black folks. Ludacris was getting mad about the waitress, also black, serving white people because "black people don 't tip" and "she wasn 't [going] waste her time." This represents racial discrimination is everywhere and even in the professional field, people can come across discrimination of all kind. Plus, Crash also display humor in the scene of Ludacris 's friend saying, "how come you didn 't tip?" and he replied, "Because she was giving bad service."
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