The award winning 2004 drama filled film, Crash, was directed, produced and co-produced by Paul Higgins. It brings to the screen the all too real different situations of life that many people go through. It reveals the assumptions made about certian "types" of people and it harshly paints a picture of what the world today has succumbed to. The movie Crash, has many different depictions of racial sterotypes and slurs, as well as many of todays modern social outlooks on different economic class ranks, gender and racial background, through the lives of different people in completely different statuses.
This film is compacted with controversal turmoil and the bitter truth of racial cliches.Creative techniques that were incorporated into this film was the constant feeling of suspense. It kept a rigid edge on the film, that gave off an aura of anxiety towards the characters and their situations. The film was vigilant in portraying high and tense emotions and their decisions and outlooks.
Never a dull or slow moment in Crash, it was persistent on its general message of the harsh realities of life, and the ugly shamful veil of racism. It establishes different economic classes and lower classes along with the sterotypes of each. Different views are being presented and the different routines that people have according to their "rank" in society.
Overall the general message that is clearly portrayed in the film is the rarely talked about, quiet issue of racism in todays society. We must learn as a whole that we have a long way to change and progress in how we percieve people because of the color of ones skins, the amount of money in their bank account, or their beliefs and traditions. We must learn to be able to look past the surface to actually understand one another. Our society has become blind and oblivious when it comes to the matter of people who are different from us. We have become too quick to judge others.
Now, many people judge others at the drop of a hat, and it must not be so. God has taught us to love one another and accept all others as brothers and sisters with open arms. We must community and love and compassion for one another, something that this modern generation greatly lacks. Everyone is equal, no one is above or below each other, regardless of our backrounds or our past decisions.-Carolina Rodriguez