Click Movie Analysis

Ever since the beginning of humanity, humans told stories. It was a way to entertain people and explain memories. Overtime, people started to incorporate their friends and acting out the stories making plays. Plays made the entertainment industry boom and with the advancement of technology, movies were made. Now when you think of spending time with your family or that special someone, one of the first things that pop into your head is a movie night. Watching a movie with your friends is a great way to spend time and have fun. I am a sucker for comedy movies. One movie that has such a deep meaning is Adam Sandler’s Click. Plenty of people in today’s society are workaholics. They just don’t care about spending time with family, it is all about

work. It is all about the message of “Every moment is a moment to be lived.” Another famous movie that really teaches someone a lesson is Frank Darabont’s The Green Mile. This movie teaches us to look inside of a person and not at their physical appearance. In Crash, you can incorporate the meaning of both the Green Mile and Click. It connected to many people because it opened their eyes to these issues. In Crash, Paul Haggis impacts the audience by illustrating how complex the characters are and putting people’s thoughts into the mouths of the actors.
Crash is a 2004 film directed and written by Paul Haggis, along with co-writer Robert Moresco.

It features 9 different main characters, all with different struggles throughout the plot. The movie starts off with a crime scene. A young man has been shot and Detective Graham (Don Cheadle) has arrived at the scene to investigate. However, this was after his girlfriend/partner, Ria (Jennifer Esposito) was rear-ended by an Asian woman. The two mouth off at each other—both being racist. We are now taken back to the beginning of the story where Rick, who is played by Brendan Fraser, is frightened about his public appearance. He is running for district attorney and his wife Jean, who is played by Sandra Bullock, is racist in every way. They are walking through town after dinner and get robbed by Anthony, (Ludacris), and Peter Waters, played by Lorenz Tate. These two teenage black males steal the married couple’s car at gunpoint. The movie concludes with a murder and a complete change of course with every character. The tagline “Moving at the speed of life, we are bound to collide with each other,” is a great representation of this movie. Not only does it represent the plot well, it describes how every little action can impact the other characters. Worldwide, Crash earned $98,410,061, and over half of that was in America alone. The film was nominated for almost 90 awards and won 62, including 3

Oscars.
The characters and how they talk play a vital role in this movie. The movie wouldn’t be nearly as interesting without the dialogue they have. *Author* of the Augusta Chronicle article entitled “At the Movies: ‘Crash,” says “Haggis and co-writer Bobby Moresco have created such complex characters - each of whom has an arc, none of whom is what he or she initially seems - that they avoid such oversimplification.” Every character has an arc incorporated into them. Whether it be positive or negative, that is what impacts the movie the most. When you look at the film not one character is simple. Every character is detailed, shaped, and arced. They’re so unpredictable and that what makes a lot of the movie and gives it its meat. Graham, the main detective is perceived as a good guy but later on he takes a bribe and is blamed by his mom for the death of his brother. This is a huge surprise because he is thought to be a good detective but the audience is shocked he takes a bribe to help his brother. The “good” cop, or the cop that we see as the good one, ends up killing a man that, at the moment, should not have been killed. We think from his actions early in the film that he is good. The main “bad man” played by Ludacris, the man that would do anything for a buck, saves Chinese immigrants from slavery by letting them go rather than selling them. AUTHOR AND WHAT WEBSITE “This is super-edgy stuff, so much so that almost no character can arrive on screen without pranging another character of a different racial group and yelping insults, right off the bat, dialogue that can be summarized as: "Good morning!" - "I'll good morning you in a minute you spic/ Mick/ black/ cracker/ al-Qaeda terrorist asshole etc!" The characters have no filter. Every scene is of them dissing each other and vulgar words ensue. A normal person would never say half the words they say in the movie in public. It is a vital part of the film but I feel it would limit sales because most people would be afraid of the vulgar actions and language. I think the character and language is very important to the movie. Difference in characters make an interesting movie and makes it way more interesting and adds a bit of comedy into it. It is definitely a good strategy for the movie and justifies its many awards.
The way the film displays racism and putting society’s thoughts into their mouths is crucial in this film. It would definitely be different if everyone kept their filter. Peter Bradshaw the author of The Guardian article entitled “Crash” expresses the dialogue of this film with his quote: “This is super-edgy stuff, so much so that almost no character can arrive on screen without pranging another character of a different racial group and yelping insults, right off the bat, dialogue that can be summarized as: "Good morning!" - "I'll good morning you in a minute you spic/ Mick/ black/ cracker/ al-Qaida terrorist asshole etc!" The characters have no filter. Every scene is them dissing each other and vulgar words ensue. A normal person would never say half the word they say in the movie in public. Just because we don’t say these words, doesn’t mean we aren’t thinking them. The only thing different between the characters in the movie and us is the fact that we have a social filter. How boring of a movie would it be if they didn’t say all of these words? “Haggis’ script is so direct and so full of life that the film turns what you expect quite literally upside down. It’s the sort of film you wish you could force everyone to see, it leaves you with the perhaps painfully naïve conviction that if only enough people saw it, then the world might be a better place to live in.” Haggis’ script is so direct and necessary because it shows what everyone thinks and feels. If everyone saw this movie the world would be a better place. If you look at the scene where the Persian man is trying to buy a gun, it turns ugly really quickly. The white salesman man calls the Persian “Osama” and even throws in a 9/11 reference. This is a common thought today and even more 3 years after 9/11, when this movie hit the big screen. Just because someone looks like they are middle-eastern, doesn’t mean they’re Muslim or a terrorist.
Films like Crash open America’s eyes. If more movies like it were made, America would benefit from it because at this moment we are filled with ignorance. Maybe movies like this would make people realize what they are thinking-that just because someone is from the Middle East they are a terrorist. Maybe it might make people feel guilty about their thoughts that just because someone is a race other than white they are dangerous. Perhaps next time they collide with someone, they can resist thinking negative thoughts based on stereotypes.