CRASH: The Movie

The film Crash won three Oscars for a good reason, it was a wonderfully powerful movie. The movie takes place over two days and explores racial, and cultural differences between fifteen people who's lives seem to all intertwine together. The story switches from a black man stealing a senators car to a cop saving a womens life in a car who he violated just the previous night. This movie also explores the bias towards stereotypes. For example, a Persian immigrant father tries to buy a gun at a local gun shop, but it becomes a hassle because the white shop owner only sees him as a "terrorist" because he is middle eastern. By the end, it seems as though every characters eyes are more open to the world of stereotypes and each person is given a second chance in that way.
My favorite story was the one between the cop and the black woman because after getting pulled over for nothing, the cop violates the woman right in front of her husband. She goes home humiliated and it starts an uprising between her and her husband. However, the next day the woman's car flips over and is leaking gasoline and who but the cop pulls up to the scene. He runs into the car and tries to pull her out but she refuses because she recognizes him. This was a very powerful scene because the woman is so scared of the cop because she was broken down to nothing the night before and now she has to let this man save her life. He has to tell her over and over again that he is not going to hurt her and that the car is leaking gas and that she needs to get out, and this is when she listens to him.