The Crash Beep. Beep. I felt groggy, where was I? what happened? This lady with a sky blue mask covering her mouth towered over my unable to move body on the metal table, shuffling through my organs. I felt her lukewarm hands among my insides, panicking, I could not say a word. All I could think was is this real, was this actually happening to me. A man behind me put an ovalular mask over my mouth, making me inhale the bland toxins to doze off. The lights were as bright as the sun beaming down on a non-cloudy day. I felt like I was being blinded. instead of being on the cold metal surgical table, I was in a cozy warm hospital bed. I woke up to the same woman towering over me, she began to run her witch like fingers over my scar on my stomach, causing me to have a flashback and panic. “Get your hands off of me!” I demanded. “But Ma’am we have to do a second surgery, your incisions are bleeding out,” said the pleading surgeon. “I will have the second surgery, but you can and will not …show more content…
Here in North Carolina, a place that would usually get only a foot of snow, but this time it was more than just any foot of snow. I walked outside and I could barely see my see my four foot mailbox. It took me two hours to shovel my car out of the snow, this was snow Ive never seen before. I began to rush, I could not be late for work there was a huge board meeting I was in charge of. The roads had covered in black ice causing them to be very hazardous while driving. White flurries were falling gently down from the sky. I could barely see the roads with all this snow falling, so I made it evident to myself that I should take a short cut. I made a sharp turn going 45 miles per hour, while I was turning a coin silver toyota camry was shooting down the road like a fireball and crashed into my side of the car door making the car tilt on its side. Both cars screeched. The screeches of the cars were the last thing I heard before I lost
“Crash” is a film that tells the story of over eleven different characters of multifarious ethnicities and groups, whose lives interconnect with one another in the span of two days in the city of Los Angeles. The storyline weaves together the lives of two carjackers, a detective who’s at odds with his mother, a DA and his wife, a racist police officer and his more idealistic partner, a television director and his wife, a Persian man who owns his own store, and a locksmith. It was a fantastic movie that takes careful attention to understand, but really opens the eyes of the viewer. It displays an eye opening message about racism and the effects of ignorance and misconception and how much it all affects our communication and our society.
Have you ever wondered what it feels like to live in a country or city that is completely discriminative about your ethnicity? How would you feel to be walking down the road and be afraid to cross the street because there is a different race in the direction you are wanting to head? Well these are prime examples that happen in everyday life all the time. The movie Crash that I will be referencing a lot of my information off of, is a movie where there is a lot of different ethnical backgrounds. In the beginning of the movie Crash, a detective is investigating a homicide, a black male was found dead on the side of the road. The movie starts off with a lot of vehicles driving down the road with a lot of tire marking engraved into the grass.
I heard a blood-curdling scream and I jumped. I felt silent tears running down my heavily scarred face, but they weren’t out of sadness. Mostly. They were a mixture of pain and fear. I ran into the eerie, blood-splattered room and screamed as I felt cold fingers grab my neck.
but i was in a hospital and it wasn't my alarm it was my heart rate, i looked down and i had a big wrap around my back and chest. I couldn't remember what had happened but i was cold very cold but it didn't seem to bother me i was so fascinated, i looked up and the doctor was standing there examining him said “we don't know how you survived” i questioned ”what happened” well when we found you you had a icicle strait through your heart and we thought you were gone but when we went to touch it it melted and it was gone except the hole in your chest, but your heart it was in cased in ice and there wasn't a hole it was sealed, but you cant leave yet we are still running test. “but i feel fine im just going to grab my stuff and go” “sir sit down” “no im
The movie Crash is without a doubt a very racist movie, but the creators did so in a way that not just one group was targeted. The creators of the movie made sure to incorporate all races when producing this film. To some people, the plot of this movie is too heavy, but the movie touched bases on many different aspects that individuals deal with on a day-to-day basis. The movie depicts that everyone has demons regardless of race, job title, or age. The movie starts with a car collision and then goes into a flashback mode, displaying events that lead up to the initial crash.
For as long as I could remember my parents have ingrained into my head two important lessons that are impossible to forget. Lesson number one: do unto others as you would have them do unto you. Lesson number two: it’s what’s on the inside that counts. As a 22 year old currently going through the transition from late adolescence to early adulthood, I would be lying if I said I agree with everything my parents taught me. However, these two lessons I will always agree with for they have always guided me in the right direction. “Individuals revisit the content of their parental identifications. They analyze those beliefs, attitudes, and values they may have swallowed whole as children, evaluating which of them are still relevant to their own personal vision of themselves functioning in their current situation” (356). After watching the movie, Crash, I was taken back by the sad reality of prejudice, racism, and stereotypes in todays society. For my undergraduate degree I attended University at Buffalo, an extremely diverse college. I had many encounters with people from different cultures, customs, and religions than me. I always was and will be considerate of every culture and was taken back by the disrespect shown by others. During the movie I was extremely upset and felt for some of the characters because I kept imaging how I would feel if another person judged me by my race or religion. Films like Crash are forcing us to look outside our own lives and fears, to realize that we're more alike than we think. Crash made me realize that we live in a close-knit society because each person has either a direct or indirect effect on others. Being an empathetic person and being able to relate to different types of people has ...
This movie is filled with shocking details and scenes; it shows that each character, whom all are residents of L.A. is different, but shares the same assumptions, fears, and hopes. While watching the movie, I was feeling sorry for the couple who were car jacked, but then later saw how the lady assumed that the Hispanic man was a criminal. Peter is involved in carjacking a vehicle, but is later shot dead by Officer Hansen. Shaniqua was belittled and yelled at by Officer Ryan, but later shows her yelling and berating another driver involved in an accident, at the end of the movie. The two black males who feels mistreated and discriminated against in a restaurant and on the street are the same two who car
Racism has been introduced in America over a long period of time; moreover, since the beginning of the 18th century and it is still being executed today. Racism is a belief to make each race either feel superior or inferior to another. In Crash, racial prejudice is manifested throughout the film within many social groups. The film Crash demonstrates racial prejudice towards many ethic groups by displaying stereotypes, violence, and racial tensions.
The film named “Crash” is a story taken place in Los Angeles, California. The story in a movie was written by Paul haggis. This movie was released on May 6, 2005. While viewing this movie, most people notice occurrence of the racial issues. Crash movie also holds gender stereotypes, and not only strong racial stereotypes. Gender stereotypes play a noticeable role in the film due to the fact that they are not mentioned or resolved as the racial matters are. Movie’s ending part holds hope for a world which accepts all forms of race, but the plot does not talks about gender, it does not bring hope for a gender which is accepted by world. Several stories take place in the movie crash during the period in Los Angeles. The women in this film share similar characteristics with each other although they are of different class and race. Most of the men also have similar characteristics, but in a masculine and controlling way compared to the women. All the characters in the movie are very narrow-minded and self-justifying. The difference in the movie is that men are macho and self-justifying of their masculine power while the women are self-justifying of their possessions and loved ones.
In the Oscar award winning movie Crash, directed by Paul Haggis, a network of characters portray the lifestyles of different races in Los Angeles. In the movie, characters “crash” into one another, similar to pinballs, to spur new emotions and explain their actions. A main character Anthony, an African American male, steadily tries to prove why he does not and will not fall into the black male thug stereotype. He was slightly close minded and repeatedly had a negative outlook towards his environment. Anthony created contradictions between what he said and what his actual intentions were. His actions were guided by his environment and further analysis of them will prove his motivation.
The Crash of 2008, also known as The 2008 Financial Crisis or the Global Financial Crisis, is the United States financial recession, started in December 2007 and ended in June 2009. It is considered as the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression in 1929 (Financial crisis of 2007-2008, 2018). The Crash was caused by some main factors such as deregulation, carelessness of financial institutes and investors, the out-of-control growth of subprime loans and mortgages, securitization (What Caused the 2008 Global Financial Crisis, 2018). It brought a lot of negative impacts to the United States’ economy and the world’s economy. Many countries were affected, billion people lost jobs and money, led to the drop of global’s productivity.
There are many social problems that exist in the world today, which includes but do not limits to self-identity and racism. However, they somehow go unnoticed because at times people conform to what society thinks is the way to live. In my opinion, people believe they should act or feel a certain way because of what is broadcast on television, featured in magazines, and even brought into the limelight by celebrities. After viewing the movie Crash, in my opinion, the movie targets on going social problems that are constantly being swept under the rug to this present day. I deem Crash a race movie because it forces the audience to question their own moral values.
The pick-up bounced jarringly down the old dirt road. The driver sat up straight in the front seat, checking over her shoulder every few seconds to make sure that her cargo hadn't fallen out.
Last year I got involved in a massive car accident. It was the most terrified part of life. It was the moment. I will never forget in my whole life. Before, I never realized how people really feel when a car accident happens.But,after this car accident I know what really it felt like. It was the moment. My mind was totally feared of driving. I was crushed by the hot metal and cold dirt of car. I was not feeling my arm,my body was numbed.It was felt like my lower body pressed down with monster force. All I could feel was the noise of car accident ringing in my ear.I was barely able to move my body. I was kept thinking. What my parents going to think about this? Where is my friend John? I looked through the window and saw the cars passing by
The reckless driver hit us straight on, then “Bang!” a loud noise resonated through the air, and abruptly my body flew out and hit the pavement of the road. Everything around me was simply a white haze for a few seconds after the impact. My body felt extremely heavy and the sharp pain throbbed throughout my face and body. Lying there on the rough asphalt, I faintly heard my mom and Carrie call out to me, “Sydney! Sydney! Are you okay? Answer me! Sydney!” I wanted I speak up and answer them, nonetheless, it was useless, my voice just wouldn’t make a sound. The desperation in Carrie’s and my mom’s voices reverberated to me across from where I was lying. My mom frantically ran up to my side and hugged me tightly in her arms. Blood was squirting out of her pinky, where the top of her finger had been severed. The places where my mom’s tears fell, stung my wounds, nevertheless, it was nothing compared to each little movements that caused the pains to electrify through my body severely. Every second was hell, the pain was just utterly agonizing and tormenting. Whether it was due to the pain or the exhaustion my body suffered, my mind slowly drifted off and I couldn’t keep my eyes open any longer. As my eyes gradually closed, the blazing siren seemed to have grown louder little by