The Movie Crash (2004) - director: Paul Haggis

A Crash Course on Racism and Contemporary Society

When you see the word crash , it always summons to mind an unfortunate event that has to deal with vehicles . Someone even told me that it is prohibited to say this word when you are boarded on an airplane because you might cause panic among another passengers . Planes , cars and even computers crash . Crash basically means collision . Similarly , the title of Paul Haggis recent movie is Crash (2005 . However , viewers will see not only collisions involving cars , but collisions involving race culture and classes

p The movie 'Crash ' tackles the cross-cultural panorama of Los Angeles urban life , involving people interconnected to each other in vestiges of crime , racism , corruption , obligation , indignation and chance over a two-day period . The storyline superimposes the complexity of the multifaceted narratives of their lives entwined under the numerous social and psychological issues usually hidden inside the closet of the American consciousness

The Plot : Crash or Clash

The story revolves around two cops , one senior and the other junior The other jaded and abusive , the other one is a novice and willing to learn the ropes . These cops are played by Matt Dillon and Ryan Philippe respectively . One day , when they were assigned in their beat site , they pull over and eventually harass a black couple (Terrence Howard and Thandie Newton ) because the SUV they 're driving vaguely fits the of a carjacked vehicle that was reported

More complications swiftly supersede within 24 hours , these characters all cross paths again in separate incidents of incredibly high tension that challenge both the prejudices that have formed between them and the assumptions we draw out from their different perspectives about race and culture as a whole

It turned out that Christine (Thandie Newton ) was surprised that she encounters Sgt . Ryan (Matt Dillon , the racist cop who sexually molested her during a traffic stop the previous night , the officer on the scene who pulls her from the burning car . To further intricately muddle the conflicts , characters encounter and reencounter one another in highly convenient ways . For example , a young African-American criminal Peter (Lanrez Tate ) is murdered . Fortunately , he has a brother , Graham (Don Cheadle , an LAPD detective , who discovers Peter 's dead body in the desert . Prior to learning of his brother 's death , Graham is thwarted by the district attorney 's office into suppressing evidence that may partially absolve a white police officer charged with killing a black cop . Incidentally , the district attorney (Brendan Fraser ) is looking for a conviction that would help him gather enough support from the black community , since he is trying to manage a potential media scandal . He and his wife (Sandra Bullock ) were carjacked in Sherman Oaks by two young black men

Moreover , more table-turning events are revealed in the lives of the characters because actual carjackers is Peter and his friend (Larenz Tate and rapper Ludacris . Surprisingly , the carjackers and their victims - these four are , in turn , connected through other events to a young...