An analysis of Racial Tensions in Crash movie

Crash Movie
“An analysis of Racial Tensions in Crash movie”
Introduction

Crash movie
The crash is an award-winning film, wrote and directed by Paul Haggis in 2004. The film is
essentially about race and its effects on various people with different racial, ethical and socio-
economic background. It also demonstrates the intertwinement of different characters' stories and
the difficulties they encounter on the grounds of the prejudices they have for each other.
My main focus in this assignment deals with the race intention and its effect on American
society. Furthermore, I will examine the concepts related with the book Contemporary America
by Russell Duncan and Joseph Goddard and other sources.
Main body
In the present scenario, Society race is defined as a category of people who share certain
inherited physical characteristics. However, this definition has not always been the same. The
earliest concept of race was rather related to a group affiliation than physical treats or
appearances. A remarkable shift in the idea of race is highly noticed in the 17th and 18th century
when the colonialism, slavery and the age of enlightenment took place (Sean, 2018). The race is
considered as the complex and controversial subject in American society. In fact, Race is one of
the hot topics which dominate the contemporary American society but yet less discussed
between families and friends. According to Russell Duncan and Joseph Goddard in the book
Contemporary America, Racial clashes and tensions have persisted throughout American history
and racial equality remains a dream differed (Duncan & Goddard, 2007).
As the film's theme reveals that, the crash movie is a great demonstration of racial conflict and
tension as it shows how each character negatively stereotypes each other's race or background.
The film portrays a variety of races comprising African Americans, Hispanics, a Middle Eastern
family, and Asians. These people deal with different experiences, but a racial tension still a
common determining factor in their lives, from the way they interact with each other, the places
they live, the jobs they do, the struggles and the stereotype they face. Racial tension could
partially be a result of negative assumptions of one another on the basis of preconceived
prejudice.
One of the definitions given in the Dictionary.com is that a prejudice is unreasonable feelings,
opinions, or attitudes, especially of a hostile nature, regarding an ethnic, racial, or religious group
(Dictionary, 2018).
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