Crash: The Movie
Published August 21, 2012 by SHELLIE FRADDIN August 17, 2012-
Have you seen the movie CRASH, that won 3 Academy Awards in 2005, including best picture? This movie impacted my soul. The film takes place in Los Angeles, and tells the interlocking stories of people from all cultures, as well as cops and criminals, the powerful and powerless. Although these people’s lives seem totally unrelated, they ‘crash’ into each other at some point, and become related. This occurs in our lives every day, if we pay attention to the ‘coincidences’.
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In a flashback, the director of CRASH brings his audience to the day before the crash accident which is the first scene. Each person had a different life experience, yet all led to one consequence: the accumulation of intense emotion ready to vent on others. People began to hurt others as a way to release their own frustrations.
COLLISIONS is the theme of the movie and we begin to see collisions between different races, different classes, different cultures, and moreover, different natures inside the characters. We feel like God looking down into this city and their lives.
In the film, the district attorney’s wife, was robbed at gunpoint and later discriminated against the black young locksmith and reprimanded her Asian servant. A white policeman, whose father is sick and can’t sleep at night, was reprimanded by his dad and later humiliated a black director’s white wife.
Although this film focuses on race, color, ethnic differences, it is truly a study of human behavior: that what we think, how we feel and what we do impacts others. The way to avoid ‘CRASHES AND COLLISIONS’ is to identify our pain and suffering, heal ourselves, take responsibility for our thoughts and actions rather than on other people.
The director of Crash conveys that we are living in a society where everyone is closely connected to others. We are all one. Our behavior and thoughts affect others and we will always be impacting, colliding and involved in each others’ lives.
Published August 21, 2012 by SHELLIE FRADDIN August 17, 2012-
Have you seen the movie CRASH, that won 3 Academy Awards in 2005, including best picture? This movie impacted my soul. The film takes place in Los Angeles, and tells the interlocking stories of people from all cultures, as well as cops and criminals, the powerful and powerless. Although these people’s lives seem totally unrelated, they ‘crash’ into each other at some point, and become related. This occurs in our lives every day, if we pay attention to the ‘coincidences’.
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In a flashback, the director of CRASH brings his audience to the day before the crash accident which is the first scene. Each person had a different life experience, yet all led to one consequence: the accumulation of intense emotion ready to vent on others. People began to hurt others as a way to release their own frustrations.
COLLISIONS is the theme of the movie and we begin to see collisions between different races, different classes, different cultures, and moreover, different natures inside the characters. We feel like God looking down into this city and their lives.
In the film, the district attorney’s wife, was robbed at gunpoint and later discriminated against the black young locksmith and reprimanded her Asian servant. A white policeman, whose father is sick and can’t sleep at night, was reprimanded by his dad and later humiliated a black director’s white wife.
Although this film focuses on race, color, ethnic differences, it is truly a study of human behavior: that what we think, how we feel and what we do impacts others. The way to avoid ‘CRASHES AND COLLISIONS’ is to identify our pain and suffering, heal ourselves, take responsibility for our thoughts and actions rather than on other people.
The director of Crash conveys that we are living in a society where everyone is closely connected to others. We are all one. Our behavior and thoughts affect others and we will always be impacting, colliding and involved in each others’ lives.
