Crash Movie Review

This movie presented a lot of stereotypes, and conditioning. The first sight of that that we see is after the first car accident when she is speaking to the asian lady and is making fun of the way that she talks and vice versa for what the asian woman said to the white woman. Throughout the movie they are referred to as "Chinamen" and "Chinawoman". Then the movie presents the conditioning with black males on the same side of the street as a white woman and she curls up to grip her purse, cross the street or grabs her husband. Sandra Bullock's character is a very vulnerable woman who believes almost anything she hears when it comes to stereotypes. She believes that all black men are bad and that all hispanics have homies who go to jail and get tattoos. But the hispanic man is literally doing nothing wrong except for trying to provide for his family. Doing his job gets him targeted by a store owner who believes he robbed him of his money because of who he is. We see multiple stereotypes about how hispanics have a cousin that does everything and that black people are always looking to rob someone. When in reality it is not true. We are also introduced to Don Cheadle's character who is in a sexual relationship with a latina woman and he knows that his mother does not approve of it. Terrence Howard and his wife are in a situation where his wife gets molested by a white cop and is put in countless situations where he can either stay passive or fight back. We get to see both sides of this as well. We see how some racial issues and problems change in the long run. This movie was very beneficial to me because I never fully understood how bad these issues were. The movie never had a moment where there wasn't some type of racial slur, prejudice, and conditioning. The movie is very powerful and left an impact on me.