Crash: Emphasis on Stereotypes

        Most of the movies that I have seen, haven't had that big of an impact on me. The movie, Crash, has had a great impact on me due to the many messages the movie portrays. The movie has shown me how cruel the world actually is. It has showed me how hard it is for people to not change their opinions of those who they don't have a lot of encounters with. The character that Sandra Bullock plays is for the most part confusing to me. She is the only person in the movie that actually expresses all of her opinions towards all the nationalities that are common in the movie. Later on in the movie, she is seen self evaluating her current dilemma. She comes to the conclusion that she actually hates herself. I find it crazy because she has everything that a person could possibly need in the world. She has a maid that eventually sees as a person who is actually her best friend. She finds it mind bobbling because the person that she thought was her best friend, is probably having sexual encounters with her husband.
        The movie also focuses on how bad is good and how good is bad. When the LAPD officer John Ryan approached the woman in a very disrespectful manner, I thought that he was a scumbag that didn't know how to properly act like a man. I thought that he was a coward that just found it easy to abuse his own power for the better of his own benefit. Then his partner, Tom Hansen, showed great disgust with his partner which I was happy about because it showed that not all police officers are bad and abuse their own power. But I sure was mistaken. When we finished the ending we see that Tom Hansen is actually the racist cop. Tom without even giving Peter a chance to show him what he had in his pocket, just shot him dead. He then was portrayed as the bad cop. Then after John Ryan saved the woman that he violated, he showed great character and maturity. He showed this because he could have easily stopped trying to save her, but he did try because he knew what his job entitled him to do; to serve and protect the people.
         The character that Ludacris plays is a very ignorant person. Before hijacking the county general's car, he talks about how African Americans are constantly being oppressed by everyone. He talks about how they are constantly seen as criminals and people who are going to constantly  create harm to innocent people. Then he goes and contradicts himself by then actually hijacking the car and actually putting innocent people in danger. He then runs over the Asian human trafficker accidentally while driving away the hijacking scene. He also shows a scene of ignorance when he finds the people in the truck. He then drops the people off in an Asian community where there are no people available to help them. Then they walk onto the street the same way as they did onto the truck; clueless.