English Literature

Crash is an Oscar-winning and highly-acclaimed film that addressed the variation in ethnicities and addressed the present diversity in the contemporary American society. The characters in the movie portrayed people from different ethnicities. The movie also portrayed the stereotypes associated with the different races. The film was exalted for its accurate portrayal of discussions only held in intimate and covert settings. The movie projected the conversations that illuminate the relationship between races in the United States. The movie portrayed different stereotypical roles of the different races, one of which is Jean, a typical White American female and a wife of district attorney. The movie projected a stereotypical role of American women.

Crash narrates the interweaving stories of different races in the contemporary American society. The story is about the racism happens in the interaction of Whites, Blacks, Koreans, Latinos, cops and criminals and the weak and the powerless. Two days in Los Angeles interrelated the characters of the movie through crimes and everyday activities in terms of racism and prejudice. The movie deals with the prevalent racism and discrimination in the modern society.

One of the characters in the movie is the White American female that was played by Sandra Bullock. She played the wife of a racist district attorney whom are carjacked by two African Americans. She is a typical female White American who seems like a damsel in distress that always need to be protected. She only mingles with her kind and the people from other races is the Latina helper that she hired who she treated badly. She also thinks maliciously towards other races like the locksmith who is a Latino whom she thought as a member of a gang that will sell a copy of her house keys to his amigos and will barge in her house and steal her things.

The movie is all about the racism and discrimination in the society. It reflects the reality of the prevalence of the disparity between races and ethnicities. The movie shows that people tend to be suspicious and judgmental towards other races and how this affect our daily life activities.