The Movie Crash Essay

Living in Los Angeles can be glamorous but also has a great deal of racism and segregation. People create stereotypes and do not trust other people because of the way they look. The movie Crash takes the audience and shows them the different levels of discrimination through the eyes of different characters from different backgrounds. It depicts what it is like to be African-American living in a predominantly white area and also what it is like to be in a white community and seeing an African-American. Continuing into what it is like to be African-American and deal with the police. As well as what it is like to be a Persian family getting their store robbed, an Asian man getting run over by a van, and what it is like to be Hispanic trying to

She starts off as a typical rich house wife who feels entitled and untouchable. Jean and her husband are always trying to keep up their perfect public image. Jean gets a dose of reality when two African-American men steal her car at gun point. Jean shows previously in the movie how uncomfortable she feels when she sees an African-American in her neighborhood. Most women feel unsafe when walking on the streets late at night and seeing men of any race. The media drills it into women how dangerous predators are toward women especially late at night. It is understandable how nervous Jean feels when she sees two men walking past in the dark, but the men took her nervously grabbing her husband’s arm as a racist gesture and took action. By them taking offence to Jean’s body language they steal her car at gun point as a consequence. One of the first things Jean and her husband worry about is how this will look for her husband’s campaign. The Cabot’s show how much they value how other people view them through their politeness, how they are managing this threat to their image. While doing this Jean is still trying to recover from the mental strain the carjacking put on her. Jean will not give any person from another ethnicity the time of day, including her own house keeper who is Hispanic. Jean considers her own race to be superior and all other races dangerous and is unable to trust them. This traumatic experience translates to her taking the stereo types in her head and voicing it, not paying any attention to who is around. Jean makes it clear she cannot trust anyone else but people like her, other rich white house wives, until she falls down the stairs and in her time of need realizes who is really there for her. Having to go to the hospital Jean calls her other friends but they are all too busy. The only person who came to her rescue is her house keeper, this is