"Crash" first puts the human nature of each person above other attributes to show and discuss the problem. People are individuals first, followed by blacks, whites, Mexicans, parliamentarians, policemen, and thieves.
The film uses an extremely dramatic coincidence, the multi-racial and multi-ethnic life in Los Angeles. For example, when two black people walked out of the restaurant at the beginning, A said: The black waitress in the restaurant only added coffee to the white people and turned a blind eye to both of us. B said: Yes, maybe she also knows that black people do not like tipping, so naturally go to the white people who are willing to tip. Waiting.
A: This is discrimination. B: By the way, how much did you tip? A: She still counts on me for tips for this kind of service?
This is a strange circle of eggs or chickens first.
Later, they robbed the white prosecutor and his wife living in the upper echelons, and robbed their Mercedes-Benz SUV with guns pointed to their heads. The prosecutor's wife returned home and changed all the locks in the house. Seeing the lock changer with a flat head, tattoos, and low-waist pants (it seems that craftsmen all over the world like to dress like this), I suspected that he would sell the keys to his "comrades" when he turned his head, and yelled at her husband: What do you think Am I a racist? When I saw the black people, I avoided and was robbed by them pointing a gun to the head. The locksmith was also suspected by a Persian who opened a grocery store. He helped the Persian change the lock. After changing it, he said that the lock was changed, but there was a problem with your door and it could not be locked. You need to change the door, the old man said : Haha, right? Then you will say that you have a friend who sells the door and recommend me to buy it. The guy said that I have no friends to sell, you have to find it yourself. The reason why he was suspected twice was probably because the ethnic group he represented had done many such things.
In a place like Los Angeles, a person can't get rid of the imprint that strangers place on their ethnic group. People from a certain ethnic group commit violent crimes, and people from a certain ethnic group sell customer keys to accomplices. The old Persian man was not exempt. He went to buy a gun because he spoke Persian with his daughter and was blasted out of the shop by the white shopkeeper as a terrorist. Are the white people spared? No, white people are naturally labeled as racists. You are racist if you are not careful, because this term is exclusively white.
It is very difficult to look at every stranger without a label. You can only try to avoid being 100%. Hansen is a good example. He is a young new policeman. He was very angry after witnessing his colleague’s racist behavior. He wanted to "settle the chaos anyway" and be fair to the black. He did save the black producer's life from gunpoint under pressure and made him understand. Not every white policeman is a racist, but in the end he killed the black hitchhiker by mistake because of suspicion. Isn't it in his subconscious mind that he instinctively thinks that blacks dig their pockets are equal to their guns? This is the most ironic scene. Ryan, an old racist police officer, risked his life at the scene of a car accident to rescue the black woman he had insulted when he stopped and inspected the car, and reported that Ryan's racist new policeman, who was full of equality and love in his heart, shot and killed one. The black man he helped.
Is Ryan a racist? From today's point of view, he is 200% racist, even if he risked his life to rescue a black woman in a car accident. But if you know more about him, I'm afraid he won't be so arrogant.
Ryan, an ordinary grassroots police officer at the San Francisco Police Department, a white man. After seventeen years of work, he was still an ordinary film cop. As soon as he came out, he was in a cheap restaurant. He called the insurance company to discuss the transfer of his father to the doctor. He was rejected. He scolded the black man on the phone. The female insurance manager (judged by name), he walked out of the restaurant angrily and was notified to hunt down the robber who robbed the Mercedes, but he followed another Mercedes whose license plate did not match the owner because he was driving a car. A black male, Cameroon, is a director of a TV show in Hollywood. His wife had just returned from the awards ceremony and was in a good mood. At the time, his wife Christine was drinking slightly and was giving him oral sex. Ryan intercepted the car and asked them to get out of the car and stand aside, go up and search Christine, and put his hands up and down, which is extremely insulting, but if they resist at this time, they may be "legally" shot to death. Finally they apologized and received a warning to leave. Ryan's behavior full of racism, even partner Hansen can't see it.
Is Ryan a racist? Is it a badass? Then, when he went home, his old father had trouble going to the toilet because of prostatitis, and was unable to sleep. He had to make an appointment and asked the insurance manager to raise his hand so that his father could be transferred to the hospital and undergo surgery to relieve the pain. What he said to the insurance manager was still full of racial discrimination. He said: I believe that there are a large number of white people outside who can be qualified for your position. You may have been helped by many friendly people today. I hope you can help my father. , I’m a bad guy, but my father is not. He worked hard in his early years and started a cleaning company. He hired all black employees and gave them the same treatment as whites. This was very rare at the time. Later, because of the reform of the district council, The cleaning job opportunity was outsourced to a company run by ethnic minorities. He went bankrupt overnight and lost everything. But he did not resent the District Council for discriminating against him because he was white, and deliberately adjudging the work to a minority (black). He shouldn't bear the pain today. After hearing this, the black female insurance manager asked the security guard to kick him out of the office. He furiously and helplessly left.
Everyone in the film is a victim of racism, and almost everyone is also a perpetrator at the same time: Ryan deliberately intercepted a black vehicle, the old Persian man had a naked suspicion of the locksmith, two black youths robbed and injured a Korean. , South Koreans assist criminal groups in trafficking and smuggling Cambodian Vietnamese to the United States. This is the complexity of racial issues. Everyone in it feels that he is a victim but seldom realizes the side of the perpetrator of himself (and his ethnic group).
At the end of the film, another single white policeman killed his black police colleague also has new developments. This white drug police officer has been found not guilty of killing blacks twice before. The ballots of the district where the prosecutor is located are in jeopardy. Ask the chief of the black police officer to buckle the white police officer this time (but this time he was really in charge). Anti-drug, a well-known black anti-drug colleague takes drugs + drug trafficking + shoots him, so he is very calm). The black police chief had to come forward to help round the lie for his brother. Is there any institutional injustice to this white policeman?
Finally, the white boy of the attorney general found the chief of the black police, hoping to change the agenda of the white police shooting and killing the black police in order to benefit the vote. The black police officer categorically refused. The white boy took out his brother’s arrest warrant (four felonies in three years, robbery and murder, etc.) and said that you and your brother came from the same background. Today, you are the chief of police. He is Fugitive, can this be to blame for institutional discrimination?
He asked if there is any system that can be solved this day? I don't think so. All big mistakes and small mistakes are caused by preconceived misunderstandings. What everyone can do is to try not to look at people with labels. When you don’t understand a person, don’t label people based on a few words or one or two behaviors. Only in this way can misunderstandings between ethnic groups be reduced and reconciliation can be achieved. possible.
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