Crash

Crash analysis

This analysis is about the movie "Crash" and will cover its messages relation to its story line. Crash is an indie, drama, crime film released in 2004 by director Paul Haggis. 

Writer-director Haggis interweaves several connected stories about race, class, family and gender in Los Angeles in the aftermath of 9/11. The director uses the characters featured in the film to convey the theme of racism and stereotype as all of them are affected or associated with it in some way. Its main message of the movie is that we are all a member of one society that interact and effect each other and we're also all dependent on each other despite our race, class, or gender. 

The director uses interweaving story line of the characters lives to convey their perspectives and opinions mainly related and associated with racism. This conveys to the viewer that each of them have an opinion exactly to how each of us do. Furthermore this is emphasized in the scene where the woman gets car jacked at gun point and that makes her opinion on other races change. This shows us the impact our actions have on other people. Which is best shown from a story line that goes from character story to another.

The director use of non-liner cyclical story line, as it goes back to the beginning towards the end, is a method of keeping the viewer engaged with the journey to unravel the mystery in the beginning, seeing as the journey goes through several characters perspectives which is what conveys the message. The fact the story line didn't completely end as we revealed what transpired at the beginning, teaches the viewer that the characters and the story goes on even if the movie ends. This relates the movie to real life. 

Most of the characters presented is in this movie are like people that we would interact with in the real world as normal human beings for example the Latino lock fixer, and the Persian shopkeeper. They are shown to us as having a story, a family and a life. This teaches us that letting barriers and differences such as race and status get between us disconnects us from each other and can also hinders progress. This is evident as when the police officer shoots the black man because he stereotyped the black man as dangerous when they could have connected over something they had in common. 

Ultimately the director uses his story line to convey a message that every one is equal and our actions possess impact on other people shown through the characters and how they interact with each other in the movie. The interweaving story line also helps make every character likable so the audience doesn't like one character over another and by giving them same screen time it emphasizes the idea of equality in the characters.