Crush Movie Analysis

In this review, I will be talking about the movie, Crush and various reviewers opinions, on whether the movie achieved its main purpose, or conveyed the actual massage as expected by the public. I will also be looking at both positive and negative feedback from the public’s point in regard with the article, “don’t worry, we are all racist”.

In spite of winning an Oscar for the best picture of the year in 2006, a few reviewers had a number of negative reviews remarks about the movie. One of such remarks is the tendency of universalising and naturalising a great number of racial presumptions. Other reviewers reacted against the tendency to easily forgive racists, and concluded that the movie is self-congratulatory. According to Richard Kim, the only words that can describe this movie are, compassionate conservatism, and calls the entire theme of the movie to be, “Don’t worry, we are all racists”.

Some reviewers such as Ty Burr criticise the movie, saying that the characters in the movie lack authenticity and originality, and therefore do not portray normal human beings under normal circumstances. According to Burr, haggis is just rearranging the racial clichés, thinking that he is exposing them. This is true, to a certain extent, because it somehow can be seen in the movie, whereby, haggis tries to show his characters in depth, but it ends up looking like he is contradicting himself in a sense that, he depicts a good and a bad side of each of his characters, and this gives the movie a totally different angle then it initially intended to depict. In short, crash amplifies one aspect of racism while supressing the other.

With regard to the general public’s perception of the movie, there is so much mixed emotions about the entire mo...

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...or kill non-white people. This is seen in a scene where a whiter undercover detective named Conklin shoots and kills a driving a Mercedes. The man turns out to be a police official in Hollywood division. Conklin claims that he shot the man in self-defence but this does not sound true to waters because he discovers that this is the third black man that Conklin has shot in the line of duty. For a moment waters consider Conklin’s act, to be an issue of race, but then drops it when he realises that the cop was actually a dirty one.

From my point of view, i think there there is so much contradiction in the movie , but It also depends with which massage you choose to take out of it. We may mean to communicate a particular massage, but just because we do it wrongly that dose not define who we are. At the end of the day we are all human, which justifies self contradiction.