Crash

It is clear that the film Crash is based around racism. It portrays the clichés and generalisations of different races and cultures in the modern day America.

The film shows how the different characters (making up for large proportion of America’s population) all have one thing in common: discrimination.

It shows you how people have double standards (e.g. they won’t listen to the Iranian man but they will sell the gun to his daughter because she speaks English properly and dresses more towards the Western culture) and how easily judgements are made based on skin colour.

What is shown strongly in the film as well is the act of racism in the police department and in politics. For example the district attorney needing a black vote so turning around a murder case by making out the white cop to look bad. The director puts out very clearly in this way that racism is being ignored and is meant to be ignored. People use racism in their power because the law doesn’t tell them that they will be fined or jailed for it. For example the racist white cop feeling up the black women, and when his partner complains about it he is told to forget about it because it will cost him his job.

These are the reasons for a sense of Black Nationalism to still be alive in the way that the black robber with braded hair complains about white people stereotyping him for being dangerous when he turns out to fit perfectly in that stereotype.

What happens in this film is that everyone is a racist and gets discriminated through racism. In this way all their characters crash and every individual seems to realize that they have all been racist and they have all been discriminated by someone from a different race. Beautifully shown in this film is therefore the fact that the white race is NOT necessarily the dominant race. heir cliché just tells us that they are 'safe' and 'rich' people.

The dialogue is strong and straightforward which is meant to show the true clichés about racism and it shows what people generally think but don’t say because it is made out to be racist.