Crash blog

The movie Crash gives off many messages and morals throughout the movie. In this movie, some stereotypes are proved wrong and some are proved right. For example, early in the movie the two black males were walking in a white community, talking about racism and how it affects them. However, proving the stereotype that all black males are dangerous, the two males robbed an innocent couple at gunpoint for their vehicle. This action caused the victim to heavily believe in all the common stereotypes of people of color. In the movie, racial tensions are present. When the latino male was in the white family house fixing the lock, the white female owner of the house, made a big deal of the fact that the man was a latino. She implied that since he is latino, he is up to no good. The latino man heard her conversation with her husband causing tension. Fear represented in this movie is when the white women grabbed her husband when she saw the two black males. She grabbed her husband once she saw the two males because she was scared. Scared of her thoughts and interpretations on people that look like them, causing her to be automatically afraid. Examples of anger in this movie, is the part when the police officer who was turned down the assistance he wanted for his father, by a black woman, then transfers that anger against black woman into an event later that day. That event being stopping and searching a black couple for no good reason. His anger led him to then molest this innocent black lady.
An event that represents conditioning is the early scene of the woman being afraid of the two black males. She knew nothing about them, just that they were black males. She was conditioned to believe all black males are up to no good. An example of verbal dehumanization is when the same lady insulted the latino locksmith. She verbally dehumanized him because he was a latino. Officer Tommy Hanson’s character shows the bigger problem we have in our world. Tommy Hanson was a good man in the beginning. What happened at the end was because of the thoughts and expectations officer Hanson had about the black male passenger. These thoughts and expectations led him to shoot this man for absolutely no reason. Even a character we thought as the good cop, turned to be caught in a prejudice act.