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CRASH
Written on: April 10 5:02 PM
Everything in this world now revolves around ’symbols’, symbols such as appearances, names, races, etc; and the reality, the ’fact’, the ’inside’ is no longer seen as important and relevant for investigation. Symbols are just symbols, they don’t necessarily represent the facts at all times. In the new age, people draw into conclusions way too easily and in a haste. Is it because of the Internet Age where a ’click’ gets you everything? How did stereotype come into being so manipulative?
Yeh, that was what I kept on thinking when I was watching Paul Haggis’ CRASH.
Where is the ’line’ where attributes to a race become stereotypes? When do these symbols become insults? I’m often called as 鬼妹, but I never really felt it as an insult. But when chinese are called ’chin’, they feel it as an insult. A blackman can call another blackman ’nigger’ but never a whiteman doing so, coz then it’s racism.
While watching CRASH, I can’t help but ask myself: Are people that are suffering from stereotypes also trying to enforce it while they are trying to fight against it? When the gun shop owner called towards the Persian with ’Osama’, what did it really mean? What was behind that name? And sometimes, are people just seeing things with their own selection of ’lenses’? Anthony (Ludacris) said that stealing from a blackman is sin, but stealing from a white man is ok, through what lenses did he see that difference?
When Rick (Brendan Fraser) said that he needed to pin an African American to save the situation, he thought of a fireman who was dark-skinned. Then his assistant reminded him that he was not an African American but an Iraqi, he didn’t mind that detail. But then when he was told that his name was Saddam, well...the ’representation’ or ’symbol’ ain’t right enough.
The little girl asked his father ”How far can bullets go?”, and that line actually led me to another question, ”How far can humans go? How far can our own mind get distorted? How far can stereotypes go?”
I remember a scene where Cameron (Terrence Howard) responded to the cop, ”I didn’t ask for your help, did I?”. If there was no harm done, there won’t be any help needed, right? Why are minorities considered as minorities? Because the so-called majorities gave them that name? but ... could that be because the minorities themselves considered themselves as minorities as well?
I think this film is really quite successful in bringing up the stereotype matter. HOWEVER, I still see stereotyping in the movie itself. No doubt that the director did pin a stereotype on Americans, the white people as being too stereotypical. But luckily, this film also pinned stereotypes among the ’victims’ and ’minorities’. This is quite a film and after viewing it, I believe it was right to be awarded the Best Film (not Brokeback Mountain though it is also a nice film).
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