Monday, January 5, 2009

Then we crashed


The movie Crash extremely interesting and relevant to today's society. This movie showed inter racial conflict, but the main portion of the movie was intra-racial. The best example of this was Chris "Luda" Briges' character. He made comments such as "why do white people get scared when blackmen walk by?" He was very suspicious of racism, but then he only furthered the cycle when he robbed people. Also, the policeman that tried to do the right thing and save the black director, only got hurt in the end by accidentally killing Don Cheadle's brother. His character shows that even those who try to do good and fix the descrimination cycle only get bogged down in it, and eventually participate in the cycle. This was a very pessimistic film and looked to only show the negative (explicit and implicit) racism. However, this film definetly needs to be shown in schools and cultures!

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