Proj. Ren. “Crash”

My general reaction to “Crash” is for the movie. What I mean is that some of the different ideas are blown way out of proportion, but in a lot of ways are true. For example when Sandra Bullock believes that she is going to get robbed when the two guys go by. That part I think is a horrible but common stereotype among people today, meaning that out of fear some people think that if they walk out in the streets that they could get robbed. Or when the shop owner assumes that the Latino repairman is trying to con him, or when the producer guy thinks the actors playing African-Americans should act like they are from the “hood”. This trend of stereotyping can be linked to almost every race in the world. Asians are stereotyped as being good in math or technology fields, Middle-Eastern people are stereotyped as terrorists, Italians as great cooks, African-Americans as gangsters, and so forth. The movie tends to look towards the negative aspects of racism today, which is kind of hard to argue with. Also I kind of think that they may have over did it with the racism ideas. True that a good portion of the population thinks this way, but not everybody does. In truth I believe that the movie has not covered the blending of cultures today.