Crash, Boom, Bang

break apart, Boom, thrash Janie Bunce Abstract The film Crash was voted the trump painting of 2005 for honour adapted reason, it deals with subjects that otherwises were probably afraid to tackle. As the name implies it starts with a car crash, exactly if in doing so reveals unless one of the metaphors used in the flick. opposite metaphors used in the movie allow us to view the nicety offend that many peck fancy on a daily basis, especially when dealing with dissimilar ethnicities, religions and races.Los Angeles is shown in its true colors where pile live in a fast paced city where more than than the cars go along at a faster pace. These characters speed through their lives without nonice of other people around them. It is as if some of them make water blinders on that unless allow them to go out what they want to see. Until they crash into one each other. Crash is the kind of movie that makes you think twice about your actions, asking yourself pugnacious questions, not just of yourself, still of those that be around you could I have said that differently?Was I acting antiblack? Do I discriminate over against those I do not understand? This is the sort of movie that has us looking deep into ourselves to do some often call for soul-searching. Crash, Boom, Bang Paul Haggis directed Crash with an idea that it not only exposes multi- favorable, but multicultural differences in order to reach us a small window into a few of the interactions and how these interactions, good or bad, appropriate behaviors and lives, in a relatively small group of individuals.We are allowed to see how this group deals with situations that may be considered to be racially stereotyped and right away evild. Voted the best movie of 2005, by the Academy Awards, Crash as the backup implies starts with a crash, but that is only one metaphor for the culture shock that many people have when they crash into people from different races, religions, and ethnic ities. The city of Los Angeles is shown as a fast paced place where everything from the people involved in the first interaction to very last gasp of the movie, move faster.The characters search to speed through their lives, almost unaware and certainly most times without considering the connections and consequences of their daily actions. This is a offerdid film it understandably shows how a diverse group of individuals when pushed into one anothers lives loafer leave huffy scars in their wake. When you watch Crash you demandin to see just how much of what one feels, says, and does female genitalia impact so many others around them. in that respect were those however that were shocked by the material covered in it.It earth-closet be denied as much as anyone wants to deny it, but the movie is meant to be racist. It was made to make us think about our actions earlier we open our mouths and insert a foot into it. Some of the aspects in this movie are intended to remind us t hat no matter how we would bid to think that America is a post-discrimination country, the sad truth is that discrimination and prejudice are far from gone in America. Although this movie opened in 2005, we nonoperational have the same problems today.Young Black men are still being stereotyped, as are those of Islam and Latino heritage. Prejudice and discrimination are but cardinal subjects that are covered in this movie. We see from the social stereotyping to the outright racism how painful it must have been for the actors to reach land into themselves and find the emotion needed to do their scenes and do them well adequacy to make us believe that they were real. Paul Haggis, allows us to see the different layers of the characters as if peeling an onion.Many of us may have pre-assumptions about people from different cultures and how we interact with those people, often under stressful situations. The movie for me was a re-affirmation that all people must be treated with respec t at all times. After all it is not their fault that you may be having a bad day, or vice versa. Crash had and has the ability to blow over large au transcendnces of different ethnicities, bring them together in one means without fear of arguments. This is partly due to the undercurrents of unacknowledged racism that occurs in American life on an everyday basis.It is the kind of movie that can calculate to some soul-searching from its lingering emotional potency. It remains one of the best movies I have even seen. I have always believed that the devil most hefty characters in the movie are portrayed by Matt Dillon ( military major powerr buttocks Ryan) and Ryan Phillippe ( ships officer Tom Hansen). incumbent Ryan is not only wearied and abusive, but a racist as well, this is later shown to be because of an jurisprudence passed by the city of Los Angeles. officeholder John Ryans father loses his business, because most of his employees were works minorities.From that one ac tion we can witness the reason wherefore John becomes a racist individual. This may to a fault be the reason he blames minorities for the closure of his fathers business, thus influencing him to mistreat people of other races. This comes to light as Officers Ryan and Hansen pull over a fomite that is only vaguely similar to the carjacked vehicle that the police are looking for. Officer Ryan mistakenly believes that it is a mixed couple, with the beautiful woman being gaberdine he soon learns that the beautiful woman is in fact a light skinned dumb woman.The young couple in the vehicle can only wonder what is detecting as they see the lights wink signaling them to pull over. Their confusion turns to fear as Officer Ryan begins to vex them. Instead of public speaking up and doing the right thing, Officer Tom Hansen looks on, says zipper to stop it and becomes more dismayed by his partners actions by the minute. Officer Ryan, realizing he is in control and that no one is pass ing play to stop him he begins to enjoy his power trip as he roughly handles the slightly tipsy woman.As things progress he does almost everything to Mrs. Thayer merely have sex with her as he checks her for weapons as her angered save can only stand by and watch. Mrs. Thayers eyes beg her husband to do something, she sees the anger in his eyes but she likewise sees fear in his eyes as well. He feels answerless as he sees the fear in hers. These are two white men, two white police men that are in control, however badly, of the situation. He understands the consequences if he makes a move to assist his wife, at best he could be arrested, at worst killed.Another powerful example of poor head on Officer Ryans part is to never get into a relationship at work is shown when Officer Ryan goes to see Shaniqua Johnson in her office, and has an covert motive for seeing her, he wants to enter into a relationship but only to help himself and to possibly get a favor or two later on down th e line. From what we have seen so far, we can safely say that Officer Ryan is used to getting his way, becoming mad when he does not, and having his way when it comes to the having the balance of power. that, here we find Officer Ryan in a predicament where, a powerful woman, a powerful black woman, has the upper hand over Officer Ryan. He knows she welds the power as well as she knows who is in control of this situation. She standardizeds being able to give orders and withhold what she knows he wants. It is her choice to make and he does not like it, he can see in her eyes and hear in her tone that this is a futile situation. When she tells him that she give not be able to help his father, he begins his other strategy.Pleading his fathers case and outlining what her actions exponent terms her in the end she takes him by surprise and throws him out of her office without helping him. The last time we see Mrs. Thayer she is upside down in a car, having just had an accident and ha s found herself to be trapped in a vehicle that if she cannot get out of is going to explode and more than likely kill her. Officer Ryan comes upon the accident and calls in for help interim he has to get this woman out of the car. Mrs. Thayer recognizes him but the recognition is not mutual. Why this man? She wonders.Is he here just to molest me again? Will he even try to help me out or will he only taunt me as I die? As she begins to weigh the costs and possible benefits of this exchange and what is about to happen she is at once adamantly opposed, and rightly so, to being rescued by a person who, twenty-four hours earlier, had molested her smiling as he did it in from of her husband and not caring who he is as long as he helps her get out of that car. As we look further into this we can see that at first Ryan does not immediately understand why she is so reluctant for him to help her.Slowly recognition kicks in as he recognizes the woman. He does his best to calmly reassure her t hat he is here to help her that he is the only one here to help her, and the he will not harm her. Again he reassures her that he is only at that place to help save her and he does finally pull her from the wreckage. We then see as he holds her gently as he calms her that he is not entirely a bad man and that it is possible that his frustrations over not being able to help his father overcame him and turned him into a racist at least up until this point in his life.The most powerful scene that I felt was shown, happened between Officer Hansen and motherfucker Waters, for me it clearly showed that the balance of power was ambiguous for them both. In this scene we see Officer Hansen, a cop, although an off duty cop, and he feels he holds the balance of power. However Peter Waters does not know that the man he is speaking to is an officer of the law. He believes that he has been picked up by a fixity Joe, not a member of the LAPD. It is made clear that Officer Hansen has surface up Peter and made his own observations based on the dash of dress or lack thereof considering the current weather conditions.Officer Hansens assessment allows him to correctly assume that this man was up to no good. However, what Officer Hansen does not correctly assess is that Peter is of no threat to his safety. thinking that he is about to be threatened affects Officer Hansens image and he mistakenly assumes that Peter is pulling a gun, a tragic mistake that will affect Tom Hansen for the rest of his life. The action also affects Peters family as well, they have lost him forever and, in doing so the effect was that Peter, unarmed, was shot and killed.Officer Hansens decision was to shoot. But, why would he do that? Police officers are trained to observe minute situations, determine from those observations what their actions and reactions should be. Tom felt that this guy was a bad guy from his observations. If Peter Waters had been pulling a gun out of his pocket, as Officer Han sen mistakenly assumed, then he would definitely benefit the most by acting first. The cost of not acting first could mean death, or at the very least being injured.Regardless, of the outcome, Officer Hansen correctly identify Peter as a criminal, but his misinterpretation of the situation cost him everything. Although the movie does not tell us what eventually happens to Officer Hansen, we can use our imagination, and assume that his life would have been be changed forever. References http//academic. udayton. edu/race/01race/whiteness19. htm Crash, DVD, catalog 17938, Lions Gate Entertainment, 2004, ApolloProScreen GmbH Co. http//www. crashfilm. com/ http//en. wikipedia. org/wiki/Crash_(2004_film) http//www. imdb. com/title/tt0375679/fullcreditscast