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“Crash” Film Essay

“We learn most about ourselves when the text is informed by events and people in our
contemporary world
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Racism and prejudice are evident in our society
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Despite the fact we
are told to treat others the way we want to be treated, again and again we fail to do so
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However, the
director of “Crash”, Paul Haggis, has “seen the many ways we discriminate against each other in
everyday life […] how we rationalise and excuse it, how we organise our lives so that we don’t have
to deal with it, and how we deny that racial problems exist
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Therefore causing
us to learn more about ourselves and the people of the society we live in
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Because we all come from different
backgrounds, generally we are not opened to a wide range of cultures
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After walking into a gun shop (to buy a gun to protect his family), Farhad is
immediately met with racist remarks by the gun shop owner who says, “Yo Osama, plan a jihad in
your own time
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Farhad is not only a fictional character but rather a representation of all the victims
of Middle Eastern directed hatred resulting from 9/11
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“Crash” delivers the unspeakable
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While racism can be openly expressed by a few, most people have racial prejudices
within them
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Your amigo in
there is gonna sell our keys to one of his homies
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Haggis compels us to come to the realisation that,
although unlike Jean we did not verbalise it, we too subconsciously prejudged Daniel on his “shaved
head”, “prison tattoos” and “pants around his ass”
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” In this scene, through using an exaggerated version of the
typical Caucasian, the audience has been forced to realise that we are no better than the character
we hate for expressing the feelings we feel
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Haggis’s purpose through this is
to develop two characters derived from real people in our society to teach us more about where we
stand and how we would judge ourselves if we had the chance
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Haggis gives us insight into the personal lives of both Daniel and Farhad, which is something
we do not get to see
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Unfortunately, their paths meet under arguably the
worst circumstances of the film
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After believing he has been ripped off by Daniel who he paid to fix his
lock, he is pushed over the edge and attempts to shoot him
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The ringing sound adds to the shock as Farhad fires the gun
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Farhad’s instant regret is apparent as a long shot shows him shakily walking away from the scene
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Through
learning about others, we learn about ourselves and what we have failed to stop from happening
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” The film was informed by events and people in the contemporary world to
display what we fail see happing in our society
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Sandra Bullock the actor who played Jean said,
“If you leave this film and don’t see a piece of yourself, you’re a liar
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I wanted us to be judging ourselves
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Whether it be as the victim or offender, we learn where we stand and Haggis
forces us to judge ourselves in a new light

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