In Hollywood today, American filmmakers are taking their ideas far and beyond the typical thriller or suspenseful movie. They are making movies that force people to think and engage in what is happening. Directors are doing this by manipulating the movie with stereotypes, irony, and by speaking to the wider society. Director Paul Haggis did so in the movie Crash, as well as intertwining every character in some way. In Crash, there are good people, bad people, innocent people, and vice people. Paul Haggis molded into this repulsive (yet true) film stereotypes people perceive from day to day. It shows how every person stereotypes, and how they are stereotyped. In addition to this movie displaying many stereotypes in a single society, it also shows the us the viewers how we are all entwined somehow and in someway.
In Crash, there are stereotypes of blacks, whites, Middle Easterns, Latin Americans, women, and men. All though many of the stereotypes, if not all, are offending, they bring a point to the movie: that every single person in America is stereotyped or stereotypes in some way, shape, or form. When a person sees a tall blonde dressed up in a pink Gucci, outfit walking a groomed tiny dog, they will automatically stereotype her as a dumb blonde, or a daddy’s girl, and when that isn't even true. Towards the end of the movie, most likely to please the viewers, most of the characters in Crash stop their wrong doings, or at leasted tried to change. At the end the movie during the final scene, a car rear-ended the car in front of them, and the movie suddenly ended . Hence, causing another crash, just so that we can feel the after effects. Thanks to my English 1101 class, I look for the meaning in all movies.
Angela
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