CRASH - [15/12/10]

Crash - Movie anaylsis

- Car crash - LEPD women officer takes the mick out of chinese women and the way in which she pronounces certain words such as 'brake' as the chinese women is blaming the officer for causing the crash
- Another scene occurs where a man and his daughter are buying a gun - the owner is confronted by the man as he feels he is being treated disrespectfully - "I aman american citizen i can speak english"
-- These two scenes show the use of discrimnation against people who are not the steorotype of what is known to be "american"

- Two black males who walk out of a shop that they have been eating in are complaining about being racial discrimanated as the waitress(also black) felt uncomfortable at the fact she felt they were not going to pay - seen as being untrustworthy.
- They talk about the idea that they can be seen as UCLA students but are treated as though they are victims of an offence.
- White male and female couple are talking whilst the walk past the black males the women grabs her husbands arm. One of the black males feels it is not appriorate for people to act this way as they are judged by 'steorotype'.
- The two black males end up as self fulfilling prophcies as they bring out their guns and steal the white male and females big car.
- At the white male and females house they are getting their house locks changed as they are worried that they are under threat, the wife confronts her husband about the appearance of the man who is changing the locks - "you need to change the locks again" - as she feels uncomfortable with a black man with tattoos and a shaved head - (steorotype) is changing their locks "sell our keys to one of her gang bang friends and they will come into our home".

-White police officer calls the doctors(help for his father) he needs help and is very angry he asks to speak to the womens boss as she says "she is her own boss" he asks for her name - "shenqua" the police officer straight away uses a steorotype of the name and quotes "thats a fucking suprise" - argued to be a typical black name.
-The same white police officer and his police partner - have got a report on the stolen car by two black males as they get the report the officer follows another car which looks the same as his partner confronts him and tell him it is the wrong car he still continues to follow the vehicle - he stops a black couple and already assumes they are doing wrong. They are told to keep their hands where they are and not to move. Officer makes the black man get out of the car and immediatly assumes it is to do with drink driving and explains how he doesnt drink whilst his wife says "he is a buddist for gods sake".
- As the women gets out of the car the officers tells her too go back inside she is then told to stand against the car as the officer asks her if she has any knifes or weapons although she is wearing a cocktail dress (white officer following a steorotype). He touches up the black women in an inappriorate way infront of her husband and asks the black man to apologies although they have done nothing wrong.
- The black man apologies for nothing he has done but feels as though he has too otherwise he would be arrested. - the wife is disgusted and feels humilated.

- The father who brought the gun - shop door broken.

-When the black couple reach home wife tries to call a lawyer and ends up in an argument with her husband about how ashamed she was and how he is too worried about impressing his white friends - they argue about who is more "black" - wife says "the closest you have been to becoming black is watching the cosby show" (he does not know how black people should act) and he feels the same about his wife " atleast it is not with the whole aqustrin team" - (as they are a rich black couple they feel they have not had the typical black upbringing that is seen through steorotypes)

- The lock changers daughter is underneath her bed as she is scared she heard gun shots, (a young girl living in a steorotypical area knowing what gun shots should sound like) - however he reassures her they live in a good neighbour hood now unlike previously -(lower class living in a scarey neighbourhood - crime) - as they previously lived in a house where a bullet went through the window.
- He gives the little girl an invisiable cloock and explains how it is bullet proof
being inpentiable (nothing will hurt her)
(not based on everyday life - bad neighbourhood where children no about guns and crime)

-(RAP MUSIC) - playing from two black males car that they stole - they have a conversation about how hip hop is different now from before - "nigger this and nigger that" "not hunkey"
-Talk about hip hop coming from the 60s and started with articulate men and blame the FBI for bad music.
(Music uses the wrong termnology and creates a bad image on black people)
- Run over chinese man - "china man" - call him a china man which can be steorotyped as "black slang", as they help the chinese man from under the car they leave him in the street and drive away.
(Not helping the chinese man as they have commited an offence - )

- Head officer(black man) - police partner asks to change partner but the head officer asks for an explanation as he head officer says "isit because his a racist prick" and the partner does not say this is the reason but just that he does not like him.
(Maybe helping same racial background or does not want to cause a scene - as it involves the racial incident)
- Head officer tells the police partner "how hard it is for a black man to get to the top of a racist fucking organisation like the LAPD " - this shows that even big organisations are also racist and many black people are steorotyped making it difficult for them to be upper/middle class.

-Lock man fixes door (man who brought the gun) - although there is a problem with the door and he tries to explain to the man it needs changing the man who is not very good at english gets confused and tells him to buy the new door. He calls the black man a "cheater" and starts shouting the black man tells him not to pay and leaves.
(The man is very angry and the black man does not live up to the steorotype)

-Black males who steal the cars - sell it on to a white trades man (Gives money for the stolen cars)
- The white man explains how the car needs to be burnt as they messed up by having blood on the vehicle
(not able to be paid for the job of stealing a car - shows that black males although feeling racial discrimnated work for a white man - higher up then them)

-Head officer speaks to his mother on the phone and she continues to shout telling him to find his brother - "mum im having sex with a white women" and puts the phone down
- the women thinks he was rude to his mum and thinks he needs to learn some manners
- the head officers excuse was that he did not have a good enough up bringing (making that the cause of the problem)
- Speaks about how she is not white and tells him the areas which her family are from - (not mexican) - assumes she is white or mexican because of her skin colour.

- Man with gun - shop gets trashed / everything is ruined.

-MOFAT(one of two black males -stole car) - " the only reason black people steal from their own is because there scared of white people" - meaning that black people have to steal from the white to show that they are not scared for feel as an underclass from white people.
-As they walk through the neighbourhood - they talk about the view that they are setting a good example for the neighbourhood with the work that they do. (they are argued to be put at a higher status if they steal cars and do more crime)
- As one of the black males puts his hand out for a bus his friend stops him as he tells him they make the great big windows to humilate coloured people so people can see that they are not rich enough to have vehicles -lower class)

- (Rich black coupl - Husband is a director for movie making, as he feels the scene is fine how it is he asks to take a short break - a white male which is in a lower position to the director ask him to change it as he does not speak "black enough" and asks if he is seeing a speech coach - saying he knows its weird for a white man to say.
(SAYS : DO NOT TALK TO ME LIKE THAT, INSTEAD OF: DONT BE TALKING LIKE THAT)
- He asks if there is a problem and that the character brings false to the movie.
- The black male feels over powered and asks to do one more take.

-Police officer (touched black female - mr.ryan)
- Goesto the doctors to go and see shenqua and she still explains that there is nothing that they can do.
-"I cant not thinkabout the 5 or 6 white men who could have your job" - racial comment about how she is lucky to have such a high class job.
-Mr.Ryan - Explains how his father employed the black people and at that time were the only black people that got the same wage. - (shows that his father is not racist - and that he helped black people as they were not allowed the same jobs as white people)
- Shenqua does not blame the father but people like mr.ryan and does not help him - (shows that the black woman has more power and has the power to downgrade a white man and tell him to leave the building with security)

- (man who brought the gun) - Called the locks people to get in contact with the black male who made his locks he argued that he needed his name which was not given, the people wrote on the store walls "they think we are arab,when persian become arab" - showing that people are given a labeled name and not seen to have different cultures.

-Head officer visits mother - not found brother - mothers ill

-When black director finishes for the day wife comes to speak to him about the humliation she felt and the fact he lost his diginity to a white police officer.