Crash

Today me and my class watched a movie called ”Crash”. It’s a movie about multiculturalism in an American society where we get to see how the different cultures and their following prejudices affect each other. My first impression after seeing this movie was that I’ve never thought about it like that before. That people have developed different meanings against other races and cultures than their own, and that those may lead up to terrible and unfair conflicts and consequences. An example on this is when the policeman touches the dark skinned women while controlling her and her husband. The policeman overreacts, and does unnecessary checks on them just because of their color. The couple doesn’t want to get in to trouble, and therefore have to act like the policemen ask. I think this scene is horrible. They show that just because the couple is black, they can treat them disrespectably. But an even worse scene is when the other policeman picks up a black hitch-hiker. The hiker is going to take something out of his pocket, but the policeman thinks it's a gun and then shoots the poor man. This shows us how bad the prejudices are! We always think the worst of each other. Our fear drives us outside of the road of humanity. It seems like everyone fears the worse, and thereof wants to protect themselves against anything. It’s a bit sad, especially in this case when innocent people are affected the worse.