even if i had watched this film a number of times, there is a particular scene that never fails to move me.
when the racist and lecherous officer attempts to rescue the incapacitated woman, a woman he just molested the night before, she understandably and heartwrenchingly pleads and screams : "NOT YOU! SOMEBODY ELSE, PLEASE! ANYBODY BUT YOU!"
this scene moves me for two reasons. the first is the primal fear and hatred that she has for the officer. the second is the ironic outcome of the officer having to ask for the woman's permission to TOUCH her in order to free her from the seatbelt's grip. allow me to elaborate my views further.
it is important to notice that for a moment, the woman forgets that her life is in danger. upon seeing the officer's face and recognizing him as the violator of her dignity, she forgets that she is about to die. in this case, her survival instinct is overwhelmed by other forces - HATE & FEAR.
hate & fear make us forget that we are destined to live. hate & fear make us forget who we are and who we are with. hate & fear reduce us to instinctive animals - screaming, scratching and gnarling at anything that tries to come our way. hate & fear removes our capacity to recognize a face who at that very moment may care. hate & fear prevents us from taking a hand which at that very moment may be reaching out to ours. hate & fear causes us to focus on our wounds, on our pains, on our tragedies. we rant on endlessly. needlessly. nauseously. we become broken records of our own broken-ness.
hate & fear make us forget who we are and what we are capable of. we are far more capable than hating or fearing all the time. we are far more capable than closing in to our own world and shutting everybody out. we are far more capable of living life freely, of sharing a love fully, of being humane completely.
how do we move out of hate & fear? the film is very clear on this point. we move out of fear & hate NOT by pouring out fear & hate in return. we move out of fear & hate by TOUCHing the lives of others and allowing others to TOUCH our own.
it is with a TOUCH that the officer freed the woman from the obstructive seatbelt. it is with a TOUCH that the officer comforts her after he saves her from the blazing inferno. by not giving up on her even if he was already pulled out by his companions, by choosing to go back to pull her out from a certain death, he realized he could no longer be the man he was before. that he could no longer live the way he did before. by TOUCHing her, by FREEING her, he profoundly FREED himself.
i know that you have been hurt once before. all of us have once swore never to be fooled again, never to trust again. we have seen how cruel some people can be. how cruel this world can be. if one were to be truly honest and reflective, we have even seen how cruel we can be.
now i'm not going to say that everybody you meet from now on would be kind, that the world would be a perfect place just because you watched CRASH.
the question in life is, in the midst of people's unkindness, in the face of people's indifference and lack of concern, DO YOU DO THE SAME? when people refuse to TOUCH each others lives and choose to spill out words of and act from HATE, IGNORANCE and FEAR, DO YOU RESPOND IN KIND?
do you also speak and act from HATE, IGNORANCE and FEAR?.
as the movie has artistically shown, we can never help "CRASHING" into each other's lives. i am here and you are there. wherever you are, other people will be with you. we cannot spend our lives shouting "NOT YOU! SOMEBODY ELSE, PLEASE! ANYBODY BUT YOU!" if we do, we will end up dying in an overturned vehicle of our pains, fears, hatred and sidetracked dreams.
take a chance. TOUCH someone's life.
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My favorite part in the movie was when the ignorant Indian store owner accidentally shot the daughter of the locksmith. He was in blind rage, he saw the locksmith whom he thought raided his store, aimed and shot his gun. Good thing the bullets inside were blanks!
The best part of the story is that nobody was hurt. They were shocked, but nobody was injured badly and the incident caused the store owner to reevaluate things. He seriously thought that the little girl was his angel. The locksmith's family on the other hand, valued their little girl all the more. In all honesty, I hated the Indian store owner, because he chose to stay ignorant. He always thought badly of people, as if everyone was out to get him or cheat him.
It is actually something I observed from other people (well actually, more in myself!) sometimes we can't help but be paranoid, suspicious of every little thing. And it eats us up inside, as if there is something tugging at our heart that we are alone and nobody cares about us. To put it simply, it sucks.
We want to be independent but nobody wants to be totally alone. To be shut out from society because we don't trust anybody is scary. Like they say, nobody is an island.
I describe CRASH as the smartest movie iv'ed seen so far this year.
I find the movie so depressing but yet an eye opener to everyone. These series of events are heart pounding. Every story leaves a meaningful lesson that will give you an exact overview of how real people deal with issues of race and gender.
This is a film that challenges audiences to question their own prejudices. CRASH boldly explores the gray area between black and white, victim and aggressor…and finds no easy solutions.
My favoite part in the movie is when a well-to-do African-American television producer with a beautiful wife are pulled over by an Officer who subjects them to a humiliating interrogation and her to an inappropriate search which i find it so degrading as a woman. But in the end, the person who comes rescue her when she met a car accident is the same person who degrade her dignity.
I learned that even if sometimes life is so messsed up and everything all fails but when you do good things for others god will give you the stregth that you need to go on with life. Even if you messed up with life or messed up with somebody but if you make up for that mistake and helped that somebody it will do nothing.Only in heaven will you be rewarded and i think that it's really much better than anything else.
-Soleil Angeles
This movie is for all the ones who feel alone in this world and for those who have given up hope to reach out and touch other people's lives. This movie is very inspirational.There are definitely many cruelty out there in this world and it's not like everyday we can get to experience the miracles we dreamed of.
One of the scenes that touched me was when the locksmith gave his daughter the cloak that would protect from the cruel world. It's sweet because it portrays a daughter-father relationship. He gave her a gift and the little girl shared it. The father was going through so much trouble with his work and the girl protected him, just like he protects his own daughter.
It can be really hard to deal with what's in the past and to keep moving forward. When your heart is broken up inside and it's in so much pain, you feel like you have lost everything and you would feel so alone. Then you would have this fear of making the same mistake because it was so painful before. I learned that nothing is going to change if you don't reach out. We can't always be in fear forever because not only it cuts us away from the society, but it allows fear and hate to take over and then we lose ourselves. We blame ourselves and then we start to blame our close loved ones, our friends and family and then we end up alone. Life is not perfect but every mistake or bad times we go through, things will always get better because you know there is hope.
It's also really hard to be alone and like my mom would said, we can never afford to be alone. In order to free ourselves from the pain, we must do some good deeds to others, like what sir said, to touch other people's lives and to help them in any way we can, good and bad so that we can free ourselves from our own pain.
What I truly like about this movie is that somehow everyone in the movie was able to free themselves from the pain they have gone through. The angry housewife realized that she was all alone because of her own guard and she finally reached out to her maid because she had no one else, the store owner no longer thought badly about others when he realized that he almost killed a little girl and he realized that there is good in others, the police officer who sexually molested the black woman ironically and coincidentally saves her in a car accident when he asked her permission to touch her and when he did that good deed of his, all the badness was released out of him.
They are all connected and they all think that they're all alone but when they all reach out, it changes everything. Their lives went around in circles just to find their way back to their true selves and to mend all their broken heart. As mentioned in the beginning, this movie is mostly for those who lost hope in this world. How do we move out in our own fear? By touching other people's lives.
-Paola A. Modesto
Like MAGNOLIA and SHORT CUTS, CRASH looks at the intersecting lives of several southern Californians. The ensemble cast includes Brendan Fraser and Sandra Bullock as a couple who get carjacked, Terence Howard and Thandie Newton as a TV director and his wife who face police harassment during a traffic stop, and Don Cheadle, Matt Dillon, and Ryan Phillippe as members of the LAPD.
While strides have been made in this country’s race relations, CRASH brings to the forefront the prejudices and stereotypes that often remain unspoken. MILLION DOLLAR BABY scribe Paul Haggis co-writes and directs. His implication isn’t that everyone is a racist but that it takes an ongoing, conscious effort to banish the biases and rushes to judgment ingrained in the culture. In CRASH Haggis subverts the audience’s expectations by placing characters in the middle of a spectrum spanning from nondiscriminatory to racist. Fraser’s character, an ambitious Los Angeles district attorney, hires African-Americans for his staff, but his intent proves to be selfish and politically motivated. Rapper Ludacris plays an articulate character who decries the fact that his skin color and fashion sense lead the white community to assume he’s a criminal, suspicions that also happen to be correct.
CRASH isn’t about finding solutions. That’s too large of burden to place on one film; however, Haggis offers redemption for those wrestling with race issues. CRASH is most powerful in the scenes involving Newton and Dillon, whose characters find their perceptions challenged although not necessarily altered. The film’s cast is uniformly excellent. Newton wrings the emotion from her few moments on screen. Bullock proves she’s able to do more than act cute and klutzy. If she wants to extend her career, she’d be wise to do more films like CRASH and phase out those like MISS CONGENIALITY 2. CRASH is one of the year’s best films to date.---YA YOU
there were a lot of scenes in the that has touched me. one of the scenes was the father and daughter part, wherein the daughter was hiding underneath the bed because she was afraid of the gunshots in the neighborhood, so the father made up a story to lessen the fear and to put her into sleep. "the invisible cloak". he gave it to his daughter and said that she will always be protected by it, so no danger will ever harm her. and the little girl thought it was real. so one time when the father was in danger. the danger wherein the persian guy pointed out the gun to her father. she ran towards mopher father and jumped. the guy accidentally shot her.... and the daughter said im always here for you, you are safe (i think, haha). the locksmith (father) went back in and was relived that her daughter's safe. the persian thought she was the angel.
another scene that touched me was when sandra bullock was talking to a friend of hers and telling that she always wakes up angry and tired of feeling that way.when she hang up the phone, she accidentally fell off the stairs and when the house maid rescued her, she realized after calling all of her friends and her husband that her only best friend was the house maid who, i think was a mexican, or indian (i guess).
this movie would help everyone thatbeing a racist would do us no good, and that sometimes the only people who would help us are those people we discriminate... we should learn to accept people for who they are.
>>> ANGELO VICTORIO
I think what made the movie Crash really good is how the script and the camera story telling show us a part of ourselves what we really don't want to see without squirming in our seats while watching. It points to us some concrete examples of what racism does to people in a ripple effect.
Racism for me is a very difficult issue to tackle with. As the movie showed us, it's a viscious cycle. Its similar to what Master Yoda said in Phantom Menace "Fear leads to anger. Anger leads to hate. Hate leads to suffering."
It is natural to feel a certain level of anxiety because of the fear. For us to cope up with it, its either we get defensive or aggresive and somewhere down the middle, there's already a tinge of mindless racism in it. It goes back and forth among people until someone get angry and hurt.
I think the movie also suggests that when people already cohabit in a world of fear and hatred, the only positive thing each of us can do is to give a bit of kindness and practice some sort of humility. For me, it made the movie more special because it didn't just give us provocative and compelling scenes that prove racism really sucks but it also showed us the 'what if' of not paying hate with hate but hate with kindness and fear with generosity and humility.
I notice in this movie racism is brutally shown.. its really annoying to see people critizing oneself its not like they are perfect! no body's perfec! we all have are own uniqueness and character that will distinct us from others and it should be treated with respect.
hate, anger, fear, depress and pitty are the most fatal feelings for me because this cant only bring you down this feeling will also loose your identity, who you really are and what are the god things you are capable of doing.. hate and fear will make you forget what you really feel for the person it will block your sense of reasoning and you'll loose your track.. how will you loose this feelings? "forgive and forget" but make sure if you do this you wont hide any supress feelings... i know its hard becuase what they did really hurt you but what is done is done we have to move on.. there is nothing we can do about it...
the part that really made me think is the scene were sandra bullock fell down the stairs and her so called friend didnt help her or they did gave time to be there for her... that would really crash me if i have friends like that cause nobody wants to be alone when they are in pain..
just like what some of the people who commented, the scene that touched me the most was when the little girl supposedly saved her father because of her "invisible cloak."
i've watched the film more less 4 times and that scene never fails to bring tears to my eyes.
i personally think that we cannot help but be discriminative towards the people we encounter in our everyday lives. the environment that we're exposed to heavily influences us to view things in a certain way that it has become part of our culture, our behavior, and even in our subconscious.
we see this everywhere from job applications, airports, varsity tryouts, to the very immature school stereotypes. sometimes we don't even realize it but even in situations where you find yourself asking somebody their last names, what their parents do, and what school they're from are already subtle forms of discrimination in the making.
in our kind of society, it's inevitable not to be discriminative. even if we try to be, people around us are and it slowly transfers to us without us realizing it. most of the time, it's just plain ignorance that makes us believe this or that. in fact, we sometimes blame ignorance for acting this way but the reality to it is that IGNORANCE IS NOT AN EXCUSE.
if discrimination never existed then the world would be close to perfection. the problem is that it's everywhere. is it wrong? i personally believe so but sometimes you can't just get rid of it. however, i believe that you can, in return, do something about it to ease the pain, so to speak.
if your company is looking for employees and one has more abilities than the other, of course he's more useful and of course you'd hire him. if say a student is short but can wipe out a whole basketball team on his own then by all means, let him join the team.
discrimination is just an idea. your actions that revolve around the idea are the ones that can change things whether it be for the better or for the worse. in my point of view, it is something inevitable but you shouldn't let it overpower your decisions and your opinions toward the people that surround you. if you let the idea dictate you, then you'll be living a life of misjudgment and more than a handful of enemies.
in the end, it's all up to how you handle yourself in situations where discrimination is present and how you will affect those around you.
~peña
i'm sorry, but was the comment of ya you taken from a movie review website?
When you think about it, everybody is just in the business of serving themselves and feeding off from somebody else. Its a cruel world. The movie perfectly illustrates the point. However, certain people do certain things that makes us think of how we have lived our lives, and most often attaches the common shame for what we have done when we should have done something else. How we should have acted, as contrary to what damage we have just made. Life and living has its own shadows and monsters. Oftentimes live it that way. However, there is always that higher call for us to do the opposite of what everybody else does. Because we live in the world where the negative has become the normal, where pain has become quite a routine, doing good and doing what is right would oftentime take a truck-load of guts.
Accepting your wrongs. Being able to forgive. Moving away from your pride, from your hurt, and from all the arrogance the world wants you keep and to hold...For a moment, everything goes away with just an instance of kindness extended, of something that warms us from within. For me, what is more powerful is that good which overpowers the "evil", as you may call it, that overshadows our lives. Experiencing something as real as genuine kindness makes us pause a while...to look back on how we have lived, and being able to see the truth in our lives that we try to deny and, in as much as we know it, try to hide.
I think what makes the movie more concrete, and substantial is that more than the idea of seeing ourselves through them, we have seen ourselves become like them, in one way or the other. What makes it touch the lives of many is the kindness and the goodness that we are longing for, inspite of how selfish and perverted we have all become. In the facade of being stone cold-independent, there has always this longing to give, in as much as our generation echoes that is has always been better to receive. In as much as we have always deviated from good in order to be accepted, no matter how black we have become, we are still, in the recesses of our being, wanting to be warmed with the same kindness that we deprive others, but much more, we deprive ourselves with.
Nicole Perez
What can i say about the movie? For me it is a touching movie but if you don't have a heart you would not care at all. The movie shows the different people, their culture, traditions, beliefs, and their personalities.
A lot of scences or points that really strikes me. First the role of sandra bullock at first really makes me hate her but when she fall off the stairs and no one was there for her except her nanny that'w when i see a change in her heart that she accepted her nanny dispite of differences. Second one is about the locksmith and the indian man. It is when the indian man thought that he robbed his store and accused the locksmith about the incident and anger almost got over him and almost kill his daughter into the indian shock he got off and went back to his store. what i really like about the locksmiths' attitude is that though they are too different to each other he still show care for the indian people. Lastly is about the black woman who was being molested by the policeman and when she had an accident no one was there to help her but the same police man who done something to her was there to help her though she was so scared and don't want to be safe by him there is nothing she could do but to gain her trust in him and that he has to be more respect and treat her equally.
I think we should in someway act some goodness to other people and start touching other people's lives for it may be too late for us to change into something we could never be.
i guess all we posted here mostly the same scenes or situations in the movie. we maybe different in all aspect of life even our physical figure but one thing that we are a like is that the movie inspire us and touch our hearts.
This movie was a very disturbing. it was all about crashing of different cultures. It was full of discrimination. For the white Americans, they hated black Americans. In the movie, the one running for mayor, he did show concern for the black Americans, but he kind of using them in order to win votes. The other white American police abused the black American girl by touching her all over her body. In the other hand, the black Americans hated the white
Americans. In the movie, the two black "gangsters" stole the mayor's car. They did that not because they
did something to them, but they randomly chose those white Americans. After this incident, Sandra didn't trust black Americans anymore. While the black American director didn't do anything in order to protect his wife. He just let the white American police molest her. All of the black shouldn't be touched by the white Americans and the white Americans shouldn't be touched by the black Americans. Its either they will find a way to revenge for their right or simply degrade their dignity. As the saying goes, "You can never correct a mistake with another mistake". In addition to this, Asians were also treated differently. Their dignity were also eradicated. In the movie, the owner of the shop almost killed the
daughter of the man who fixed his lock. He thought that that man was the one who raid his shop which was not really him. As the saying goes, "maraming namamatay sa akala". Good thing nothing happened to his daughter. The movie didn't end badly because everyone learned from their mistakes.
Probably not everyone can avoid discrimination and clashing of beliefs and cultures. Some will always think their better than everyone else. Some will even use their power to manipulate and
abuse the weak. Discrimination
will cause barriers in opportunity
and most of all eradicate human rights. They won't realize on their own, but something must happen in order to learn.
I realize that everyone has their
strength and weaknesses. Not everyone are privilege to opportunities. Man has its limits in everything. Some may test their
limits in order to become a better person and at whatever endeavor they must pursue. But still everyone should be given a chance and should respect their rights to live, speak and property. Instead of degrading a person, we should help them stand up and praise them
for their capabilities. Everyone should be treated equally as well as revenge is not the answer. We must live in a communist way. -Celina Reyes-
CRASH is a film that speaks in many different languages. It has parallel stories of different races, careers, and backgrounds. People of the same group talk about the people who are different from their group and viceversa, also they keep on making deprecating comments about each other.
This film has an intricate storyline crammed with fascinating characters which catches the viewers from the beginning.
In the big screen, Sandra Bullock has been accusing the innocent locksmith of being part of some gangster group just because he has tattoos, physical appearance and his race. Because of all of these features Sandra assumes that this man is a criminal but in fact he is just a naive father of a litle girl.The other scene is when a black man is sleeping with the girl which he thinks is a latina though he doesnt know where she really came from. Those scenes keeps on asking us viewers of are we really what we seem. We dont even deeply know ourselves and yet we keep on judging other people.
Watching this picture on the screen feels similar to watching a documentary, The authenticity of the characters and scenes creates a milieu where the viewers believes they are at hand.
Countless films attempt to get in touch with audiences and say stop the anger and not many have achieved this. Crash proves that not all of us are so diverse. In the wake of our masks of fear, pain and anger we all have the same heart. This film shows that despite the vindictiveness this world throws at us, we can surmount this and embrace it even if that means opening up to the ones we hurt the most. -PAOLA ORTAÑEZ
I think Crash teaches us to reflect on ourselves every once in a while. The film makes us realize that prejudice and racism is still rampant. Affirmative action is also another thing we have to consider.
I say prejudice in the sense that we don’t have to generalize people, for example the film producer in the movie mentioned that black Americans are not supposed to speak in white speak. He also mentioned that the guy sounded more intelligent than he was supposed to be. Some people might say that blacks may overreact because of the way whites treated blacks back then, but still we have to be less biased as much as we can be.
Affirmative action for me doesn’t really work. I believe that people should get jobs depending on their credentials. For example a certain percentage of white people garnered GPAs just the same as black people, but can’t get jobs because of the 30% quota. It means that only 30% of white Americans get jobs. What if companies base their hiring on the highest scorers in a certain group? What if the highest score in the African-American sector is just 70 and the highest score in the White-American sector is 71, but that person can’t get a job because a lot of people scored higher than him. It’s very unfair yet it still happens.
This is where reflection sinks in, we to have remember, every person has an equal opportunity just like any other person. We must not step on these people. We should also try not to be hypocrites, by badmouthing other people and at the same time we’re doing the same bad deed just like them.
-Edsell Sim
It’s my first time to watch crash and I liked it. This is a movie everyone should take a look at and see how ridiculous the judgments we make about people based on their skin color, race, and economical status. The principle subject matter of Crash is racism and the various expressions of it in our society. It shows how unbelievably ignorant and how cruel we can be to each other. For me, Crash is an important film. It's brutal but fair, depressing but hopeful and painfully honest in it's complex look at how different individuals perceive race relations.a must seen movie!:)
stephanie solis
this movie was an eye opener for me. it was very symbolic yet literal. the kind of movie that i would ignore at first but would stick to my head in the years to come. very inspiring. it shows two things that are divine in this world, love and hate.
my favorite story in the movie was about ludacris. his story was interesting for me because i saw myself in him. its not because i am a thug or anything but the fact that sometimes a person sees a lot of problems about everything around him but the real problem is himself. the real problem starts from his "self", his belief.
the movie teaches us one thing, that we all co-exist and everything we do has an effect to another person even if it is completely indirect, even if you dont know that person. all our action has a certain reaction to anyone and everyone.
d.k pasallan
crash is one movie that has a message for all of us because it shows how ignorance, judgment and racism still affects our society so much today. it's a sad fact that we are all guilty of making jokes or comments about people from different races...but is this what we really want to pass on to our kids and grandchildren? how to judge others by their race or the color of their skin? a person is so much more than that...we are all embodied spirits. we have our hearts, souls, bodies and minds. we are all unique, different and gifted with various talents. imagine a world where everyone looked, spoke and acted exactly alike...wouldn't it be so boring?
a great chunk of the movie is about racism but it also shows the interconnectedness of people...how people unrelated to each other, strangers, can cross paths and change each others lives completely. without this aspect, the movie would have lost the message of how racism can pollute our society. in my opinion, what you say and do daily can affect the people around you, even the people you don't know. so i do stick by the saying, "think before you leap." or in this case, "think before you open your big mouth." hehe!
the most important lesson i learned from the movie is respect. respect for people from different races, respect for their beliefs, views and practices and the acceptance that there are some aspects about them that just are...meaning, no matter how many comments i make or how different they may seem to be, i can never change who they are. we are all children of God, period. and i don't think it is really our place to judge God's creations. it's almost like telling God He didn't do a good job at all in creating mankind.
a movie like crash will really make you examine yourself...some of us may even relate to a certain character in the movie. but bottom line is that we should continue to grow as children of God. we should not lean toward worldly views that promote hate, ignorance and misunderstanding. but rather, we should follow along the path that leads to God and his teachings...because in the end, God will never look at the color of our skin or what race we are, He will look into our hearts and see how we truly lived our lives. and i'm sure all of us want God to see love in our hearts and not hate. so the next time you start to judge someone solely on their race, think about how God would feel...
- erika moran("j)
Discrimination was the theme of the movie. The characters portrays in their different scenes the act of discrimination they have suffered in the hands of the white men and the black men who were being discriminated, where they were the one being the major suspect in every crime that happens even though they were not the one who have done them. And so, in being discriminated all the time, majority of them became true criminals for the non-fair treatment that they have been accepting to other people. But this not only happens to black men, for even different racial people suffered the same treatment when they have been migrated to other country. Discrimination not only happens in one situation, but it can happen in the office, schools, streets and even in our own home. But this can treatment have been given a remedy by some of successful characters we have today, for they became successful in their own field like senators, lawyers and even doctors.- Filmar Aquino
Sir, just in case you failed to receive my email, I'll post my reaction paper on CRASH here too. ;)
I’ve always wanted to watch CRASH but I never had the time to do so. And I finally got the chance to watch it. Well what can I say? The movie was very moving. I won’t deny the fact that I got teary eyed as the movie was about to end. Had I watched the movie on my own, I would have cried a river.
I loved the part where Jean Cabot (played by Sandra Bullock) realized that her Hispanic maid (which she reprimanded during the early part of the film) was the person who cared for her the most, unlike her snooty friends who were all busy with something not so important. It was touching to see two persons of different races, hugging and contemplating about the fact that they both care for each other and that they can be good friends. Through this scene, I realized that even two persons of different ethnicity can have and maintain a good relationship. The skin color, ethnicity, culture, religion or the economic status of a person doesn’t really matter. What matters most, though this may sound cliché, is what’s within a person.
Having watched CRASH, I realized that everyone is a victim of racial discrimination. But my realization doesn’t end there. I also realized that almost everyone is GUILTY of racism. We always complain that a certain race has something against us or that they always think badly of us, but hey, don’t we say something offensive against this certain race in return as well? Most Filipinos always complain that Americans think unfavorably of us… that Americans see us as a bunch of idiots, prostitutes, or what have you. But have we ever thought about the times that we indirectly discriminate Americans or even other races? Complaining about the unhygienic lifestyle of Americans is discrimination. Making fun of the poor English grammar of fellows from neighboring countries is discrimination. So the next time we complain about us being victims of discrimination, I guess we should also cite the fact that we are also guilty of it as well– even in little ways. We always dream of being respected and accepted by other cultures and races, that we become recognized for our worth and gifts. Of course, there’s always room for change and that we can change the views of other races on us. But hey, we can never change something if change won’t start from us. Remember, we always get what we give.
Discrimination would always be there. I know that is quite impossible to change some of our biases and perspectives on other cultures and races and vice versa. But respecting and realizing that a particular race has a purpose on earth wouldn’t hurt a bit. We are all creations of God after all. And as we live our lives day by day and as we embark on whatever businesses we have, always remember the strong and inspiring seven-letter word: RESPECT. ;)
this movie crash shows how racism affects this world. how people judge others by color or race. that we give them already those labels even though without knowing the person fully.
when we judge people we should not jump to conclusion that because a person is white, african-american, asian... that they are already superior or inferior. we should see each other as equals. that we are all human beings that we have souls. we have feelings, that if you speak badly to others it hurts. that we should see others not on the outside appearance, but within we should know first the person, even if at first the person is bad, he could still change and do good.
we should just respect each other now. so that for the future generations should see each other as their equal.
< first of all, i feel so ashamed posting my reflection last, due to my oh-so-becoming-worst-and-worst-virused-computer.....its so slow...anyhow, hope you'll still count this one...trying my luck here hehe>
Ok, when i heard that we're going to watch "crash", actually sir, to be honest, i'm not familiar with the movie(shame on me). But then, it actually a pretty interesting movie.
Racism is familiar to me. We've discuss it in class and I've seen it in talkshows.Like there was this episode on "TYRA BANKS", where the audience are divided according to their race...(Muslims,Asians,White,Latino and Black)The show was full of tension, and each race had their own say...even the white people. The sad situation for me was the muslim. Since the 9-11, they are branded as terrorist, and on airports, all of them experienced inhuman acts. They felt like they dont belong to the world, like they are enemies of the universe, like all of them are being outcast.Asians on the other hand are known for being smart/workers/ofw's/"tnt"...Latinos are also branded as workers/maid/..mostly lower class. while the African american had the most common racism...it existed decades and decades ago....but then come to think of it, they are furious because the "white people" are treating them different, but so, they do the same way when the encounter the whites. Everything is like vice versa....it happens here, it happens there, they feel this, they feel that, they treat others this way, they are being treated that way.....and the list goes on.
In the movie "crash", it shows how each race felt and experience their lives in this judgemental world of ours. It doesnt only happen in america.....come to think of it, it happens everywhere.
In the "real" world, there are always people who would judge you, and sometimes, some people like me who claims "i hate being judged by others....i dont judge others...etc", would turn out to be a hypocrite.To be honest, if I see a black guy/girl when i'm out, I'd tell jokes about that person....whether we admit it or not.... once in our lifetime or more, we judge other people by their race.
one of the scenes that i was touched the most was when the daughter of this mexican guy(correct me if i'm wrong) was shot and it turned out that it was a blank bullet that shot her.....I was caught on that scene.Its amazing how a simple scene can give a twinge in your heart. The whole movie is an eye opener to everyone.
Sometimes, we tend to be selfish and only think about ourselves. We get insulted when others talk about stuffs behind our backs, but do we realize how others would feel if they knew we were talkinjg about them? we judge others by their physical appearance, by where they came from, by their past,....by their culture....
i dont think this would fade....it would be passed on for years as it was in the past years.And someday, it would be much worst. hopefully, we all could open our eyes to realization, like what happened at the end of "crash"..... most of us would preach unity and be as one...when in reality, we are all divided...literally.
you blame him,you judge her,they are criminals,they are king....talk about this and talk about that, this man is this, and this man is that...ladidah didah....wrong beliefs we have, and others have...in the end we will all crash together...and hopefully get our hearts together...
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