Analyzing The Movie 'Crash'

In 2006 the movie "Crash" won the Academy Award for Best picture and received outstanding reviews from critics across the country. Director Paul Haggis was stunned that his picture won such acclaimed awards. Haggis surely thought Ang lee's "Brokeback Mountain" would have taken the award for best picture. This shows that the American people and the academy thought Haggis's movie had pointed out real issues that are relevant in today's society. An analysis of the movie "Crash" reveals three main reasons why other countries would accept this movie as depicting American life and culture correctly; the realism of race conflict, the movie isn't biased to one race, and shows the true nature of the government when it comes to race issues. In the
In the movie they cover all race conflicts ranging from African American and Caucasian conflicts to Hispanic and Persian conflicts. In the movie though, it did seem like the Caucasian characters were more racist than the other races. Throughout the movie you can't connect all the conflicts to one race. All of these conflicts apply to every race and everyone has to face the same problems. The only race that could be considered unbiased towards to in the movie would be Caucasians. It seemed that there were a lot of stereotypes of different races, but the Caucasians didn't have that big of conflicts and never seemed to be on the receiving end of the arguments. This could partly be because of the role Caucasians play in everyday life in today's society. They are usually the ones in powerful positions such as the government and judicial system which are
At the start of the film it shows Brandon Fraser's and Sandra Bullocks character getting carjacked by two African Americans (Chris 'Ludacris' Bridges, Larenz Tate). After the carjacking they go back home and Brandon Fraser's character has a meeting with his advising staff. He is really angry because when this is put on the news he might lose some of the African American consensus. He asks his staff if there is any way they can spin it around so he can still hold on to their vote. There was no way to spin it so they decide to have him honor an African American and get a picture of it. That's when in the next scene it shows Don Chede's character reacting to a radio call to go investigate a shooting at a local store and when he gets there it turned out to be shooting between two off duty cops. Coincidentally, the cop who was shot was African American. Later on it shows Don Chede's character investigating the case and when they look in his car they find a false spare tire filled with money and found he had a history of being a crooked cop. But when he tries to further investigate and show that it might not be the Caucasians fault he is blackmailed into withholding the evidence from the case. For withholding the evidence they were going to drop all of his brother's charges. He agreed to the terms and let the African American who got shot be honored by the States Attorney. With