Movie Crash by Paul Haggis - Essay Example

The movie shows that those who are committing discrimination are even those who are victimized by the act of discrimination. The movie has represented the theme of racism from the beginning of the movie to the end of the movie as there is a small confrontation that arises between the district attorney and his wife with street walkers who are black in color.

From this point onwards the movie continue to show different incidences of racism in fast moving story line which does not slows down till the climax of the movie. The movie clearly shows that discrimination and those who have racist attitude towards are clearly blind. The movie shows that racism is embedded within the values of different characters of the movie and even if they do not wish to conduct racist activities and maintain racist attitude towards other, they end up getting involved in such acts and they themselves are not aware of them being racists.

For example: There is an Iranian man and women in the movie who own and control a convenient store and had never thought that they would be seen as Persians. Similarly the movie depicts a locksmith is referred to as a banger within the movie because his head is shaved and has certain amount of tattoos crafted on him and is not involved in any negative activity and is only trying to pursue a better future for his daughter. The movie is quite different from other movies that have been based on the depressing issue of racism; this is because in other movies the creator divides the racist and the victims in two separate groups.

But in this movie the victim himself is a racist and the racist himself is victimized from racism. The movie is not based on hopelessness where the elites are being racist against those who are being dominated. This movie even touches the subject of hope where different characters learn from different incidences that being racist and getting involved in racist activities is destructing the society and the movie even touches the subject or redemption from the evil that persist in all movie characters.

The movie is a clear representation of the society we are living in.