In the film 'Crash' (2004) one of the key themes that occur throughout the film is racism. All of the stereotypical racism is represented in most of the characters in the film through either their culture, religion or race. some off the main racism that occurs is between Black people and White people. for example in the scene where Officer Tom Hansen shoots Peter Walters, because he thought that because he was black he would pull a gun on him instead he pulled out a Jesus statue. Another example is also between white people and Muslim, this is in the Gun store when the Owner doesn't sell a gun to the Persian shop owner Farhad, and refers to Farhad as 'Osama"he then also gets security to escort Farhad out of the store. The next example of racism is between muslims and Latino/hispanics, as Farhad blames Daniel the hispanic locksmith of stealing as he couldn't fix the lock and Farhad had paid him, however Daniel could not fix the lock as the lock was not the problem, Farhad then has his store smashed up and goes for revenge on Daniel with the gun he got and shoots with blanks not realising.
Overall the film gives a negative representation of most races, religions and cultures at the start of the film, however as the film progresses the characters develop and you start to see the goodness in some of the characters, for example the white officer John Ryan saves Christine from a car explosion, just after he violated her the night before. another example is Antony when he drives a van into the chop shop just looking for money off stolen vehicles, they find Cambodian immigrants in the back of the van, Antony decides to release them onto the streets and set them free, he also gives them money as well, then while driving off he realises that he has done a good thing.
Aaron this is a good piece of writing you explain the key themes very well, with examples throughout to evidence your statements. You also discuss the characters by name and in some cases by culture or religion and elements of representation. You add your opinion when discussing the redemptive traits of the characters and how the films message is about how there is good and bad in everyone. Going forward try and identify the genre of the film and the date of production to give us context, in terms of production state the budget and any box office success to contextualise piece and any comparison to similar films by the Director or in that genre would allow you to access higher grades. Well done Aaron!
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