Essay On The Movie Crash

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Have you ever wondered what it feels like to live in a country or city that is completely discriminative about your ethnicity? How would you feel to be walking down the road and be afraid to cross the street because there is a different race in the direction you are wanting to head? Well these are prime examples that happen in everyday life all the time. The movie Crash that I will be referencing a lot of my information off of, is a movie where there is a lot of different ethnical backgrounds. In the beginning of the movie Crash, a detective is investigating a homicide, a black male was found dead on the side of the road. The movie starts off with a lot of vehicles driving down the road with a lot of tire marking engraved into the grass. …show more content…

A white district attorney vehicle was stolen by two black males, making it stressful on the attorney because he could lose a black vote, or could lose a law and order vote. This is a big issue happening in America today. A lot of these situations that happen are based on emotion, and how different races have entered our lives in good or bad ways. If a black man did a white woman a good deed, typically the white woman is going to remember that black man as a good man and she will have a positive outlook for the black race. Now, if a white woman had a negative conflict with a black male, depending on how bad the situation was she may have a negative outlook against the black race, because of the situations she’s been through. I feel people do not try to be so much racial, but rather the experiences they have with a particular race, perceiving weather they feel comfortable or uncomfortable with a specific race. For, example a police officer pulls over a black SUV that his partner states is not the correct vehicle. The police officer sees that it is a black couple driving the vehicle so he decides to pull the vehicle over anyways because of his negative experience with black people. Not to mention this police officer is having a lot of problems in his life and is very overwhelmed because his father is very ill and needs medication to help make him feel better. The officer had bad experiences with the receptionist, meanwhile she was black and would not help the officer out with his father illness. The officer then has a bad view against black people, after all his father has done is help the community get jobs and help them live better lives, no matter their background, gender, ethnicity, or race. This, infuriates the officer that the receptionist does not help him out. The officer is on duty with a lot on his mind, meanwhile after dealing with a bad situation from a black woman, he takes it to work with

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