Crash Theme Essay
Upon watching Crash Directed by Paul Haggis, I have come to the conclusion that people are a lot
more like sheep than we would like to admit. Sheep are followers; they go with what every other
sheep does. They have no sense of reasoning, right or wrong, or emotion that comes with the
frontal lobe that human beings were gifted with. So why must we continue to deny the use of our
frontal lobe’s incredible ability to be unique? Why don’t we break the cycle of letting others think
for ourselves in this contemporary society? Crash demonstrated to me that we do learn more about
ourselves when what we are watching is situational to things in our contemporary society, and
therefore showed me how human beings are so easily manipulated by what they watch and are so
easy to conform and go with the crowd. However when the techniques the director uses skew our
thoughts, then if we have the ability to recognise this, we will learn even more about ourselves.
Thus it goes without saying that I wholeheartedly agree with this statement, my decision being
based on the way we learn ideas in Crash. These ideas include interpretations of redemption, clever
contrasting use of motifs and symbols and humanity’s inclination to stereotype.
Crash is set in the bustling city of Los Angeles over a 36 hour time period and follows several
different plots with a huge range of colourful characters in difficult life situations; assault, murder
drug abuse, robbery and a chain of discrimination that connects all of the stories. It becomes
obvious rather quickly that the movie is dealing with themes of racism and discrimination when
the opening sequence shows an Asian woman who has crashed into the back of a police car and
the police officer starts to mock her accent; saying, “I blake too fast?” The film has the intention of
being morally unsettling and
more like sheep than we would like to admit. Sheep are followers; they go with what every other
sheep does. They have no sense of reasoning, right or wrong, or emotion that comes with the
frontal lobe that human beings were gifted with. So why must we continue to deny the use of our
frontal lobe’s incredible ability to be unique? Why don’t we break the cycle of letting others think
for ourselves in this contemporary society? Crash demonstrated to me that we do learn more about
ourselves when what we are watching is situational to things in our contemporary society, and
therefore showed me how human beings are so easily manipulated by what they watch and are so
easy to conform and go with the crowd. However when the techniques the director uses skew our
thoughts, then if we have the ability to recognise this, we will learn even more about ourselves.
Thus it goes without saying that I wholeheartedly agree with this statement, my decision being
based on the way we learn ideas in Crash. These ideas include interpretations of redemption, clever
contrasting use of motifs and symbols and humanity’s inclination to stereotype.
Crash is set in the bustling city of Los Angeles over a 36 hour time period and follows several
different plots with a huge range of colourful characters in difficult life situations; assault, murder
drug abuse, robbery and a chain of discrimination that connects all of the stories. It becomes
obvious rather quickly that the movie is dealing with themes of racism and discrimination when
the opening sequence shows an Asian woman who has crashed into the back of a police car and
the police officer starts to mock her accent; saying, “I blake too fast?” The film has the intention of
being morally unsettling and