Crash

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Fall

08

Fall

The film I chose to write my paper on is called “Crash.” The film follows a variety of different story lines that in the end show how every character affected one another in one way or another. The film follows a white District Attorney who uses race as a political advantage and his wife, who after being carjacked, by two black men, uses race to take out her anger and frustration on anyone who is not white. She also does not see her anger as racism because she believes herself to be justified in her anger. The movie also follows two policemen who are partners, the ranking policemen uses his position to harass non-whites. The lower ranking police officer hates his partner for his views but later shows that he subconsciously agrees. Crash also follows a black film director and his black wife. The wife does not think that her husband supports their black heritage because he did not stand up for her while the two racist white cops were harassing her. The film also follows a black cop who is estranged from his mother who has Alzheimer’s. (1) The significant moral concern in this movie is racism, and it shows examples of racism from different walks of life and many races across every corner of the globe. What I found most impactful about Crash is that the director was not afraid to not be politically correct which made the movie more honest and hard hitting.

Based off of what I have read so far in our book this movie would fall under the consequentialist theory. The consequentialist theory is any theory that looks solely to consequences of actions. (2) Each individual in this movie held some sort of racist viewpoint whether it was against his or her own race or a different race. Their racism led to actions that would make them act out on their aggression. For example the racist white cop called the hospital that his father is a patient at to see if the doctor could see him sooner since he was experiencing pain. The lady on the phone told him that...