Crash A Movie Directed By Paul Haggis, Race And Its Effect

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Although the world has become more modernized, stereotyping is still a major issue today, more so in the US. People have a fixed impression, preconceived ideas and exaggerated ways of viewing different social groups. The movie Crash, is an example of how stereotyping occurs in many ways. Crash is a movie directed by Paul Haggis, presenting a series of scenes about race and its effect on different people living in Los Angeles (Villanueva 348).
The movie exposes different types of social and multicultural differences that exist in many societies. It also presents how these differences affect the society, especially where prejudice and stereotyping are rampant (Villanueva 349). Crash is an exciting movie that portrays the interlocking stories of different social groups like the white, blacks, Latinos, Koreans, the cops, criminals, the rich and the poor, the powerless and powerful, all presented from a racist perspective (Villanueva 350).
In the movie, racism is evident in individual thoughts and feelings, throughout the movie; everyone feels it more than just once. In this movie, every character used stereotyping to crash other social groups depending on the powers they have. Crash movie shows each character's point of view regarding their racial thoughts and action presenting how each character from different backgrounds live their daily lives. Racism is well crafted where different social groups over generalize their ideas about specific groups making negative evaluation about that group. This is evident in the movie whereby in the beginning, the Asian lady tells a female detective she caused the accident because Mexicans did not know how to drive (Farris 354).
Social power is evident in the movie, especially among characters like Rick, who hires a Mexican man to replace the locks on the door because his wife feels unsafe. Jean feels unsafe because of interacting with some social groups whom she feels are criminals. Upon seeing the Mexican man, Jean gets upset, making racial remarks about how the man can sell the new keys to his friends who will break in their house (Farris 355).
Jean demands that the lock changes again. Rick thinks that Jean is irrational, but Jean reminds Rick that someone had just shoved a gun in her face (Farris 355). This is an example of how wealthy people in the society exaggerate certain isolated incidence to promote racism, especially when they look down upon those who are poor like Jean did.
The police are portrayed as the corrupt individuals who also promote racial actions, for example, the main police officer who arrest drug dealers and prevent crimes within the city does nothing, as his own mother is a drug addict (Farris 356). Stereotyping is further extended when a white police officer pulls aside a black film director Cameron and his wife Christine. The police officer John Ryan searches Christine in a sexually suggestive ways, but Cameron fails to respond Farris 357). Instead, Christine antagonizes the office and refuses to comply (Farris 357). Christine is later furious with Cameron f...