Gender In The Movie Crash

Paul Haggis, the director of the movie “Crash”. This movie was made to show the audience how gender, race, and class play such a big role on our society. Paul’s movie “Crash” is a film about several stories that interweave during two days in Los Angeles involving a collection of interrelated characters. Given that this story is about race, gender, and class I’m here to explain what race/gender has the most power? First off I’m positive that the white male has the most power in this society. Because of how easily the white male overcame the problems with other races/genders, as if the white male just swept it under the rug. For instance the white male gun store owner was asking what bullets the Persian customer wanted. He consulted with his daughter in his own language. As the gun store owner started to get frustrated he begins to say “Yo Osama plan the Jihad on your own time.” This is obviously really racist, implying that he is making fun of Islamic people but in fact he is Persian. Maybe the black race can be more civilized.

I feel like the black people in this movie are around middle of the power. They are somewhat feared by white people by then always stereotyped as being the bad guys. Shown in the movie the white lady grabs tightly onto her man because she happened to pass by some non-threating black guys. Showing that she is scared. Further on in the movie, a wealthy black couple get pulled over, ok normal. But then proceeds to the white male officer groping and sexually assaulting the black lady. This is an example of whites having more power than blacks and using their power