CRASH

Through the analogy of car crashes, the movie Crash attempts to bring matters of race in America to the foreground. After being rear ended, Graham, an African American detective, sets the tone when he says "In L.A., nobody touches you. We're always behind this metal and glass. I think we miss that touch so much that sometimes we crash into one another just to feel something". The illusion of feeling safe and impermeable to everything when we are in our car is destroyed when we crash into someone and are forced to deal with what just happened. In reality, we think we are unaffected by racism simply by avoiding certain encounters. We pretend we are impermeable to its effects. But if we were placed in a particular situation, we would be forced to deal with our prejudices. Only when we recognize and admit our prejudices can we begin to deal with racism in our society.

I think what Paul Haggis, the co-writer and director of Crash, wants us to believe is that racism is......

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Title: Crash
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