The revolution has not yet succeeded, comrades still have to work hard

Salma 2022-03-21 09:01:11


Saw the crash.

Racial discrimination issues. Black, white, yellow race.


A huge contradiction, infiltrated from countless small and staggered incisions, wants to reach the center of the conflict and find the root and essence of the problem.

The first half of the film creates a lot of conflicts, and the second half is used to solve these entangled problems.

The last part of the film embodies a lot of warmth, depicting humanistic care, and of course it beautifies white Americans, and demonizes Asians, especially Chinese, once again describing the Chinese as illegal, uncivilized, unreasonable, and aggressive. There are also villains and shrews who sell human beings.
Forget it, I don't want to talk about this kind of thing.



At the beginning of the film, sitting in the car that was hit in the ass, the black police officer Graham said a meaningful passage: "This is the feeling of contact. In any city, do you know that you will rub against others? Passing by, others will bump into you. In Los Angeles, no one will bump into you. It is always separated by this layer of metal and glass. I don’t think we have experienced the feeling of contact for a long time. We bumped into each other to find someone Some feelings.”

Then following the progress of the film, to the relaxation and resolution of some conflicts in the second half, until the last scene, another crash occurred. The person who told this story seemed to try to tell the audience about racial discrimination itself and The series of problems it caused at first seemed irreconcilable, but in fact, the nature of all people is not bad.
Whether it is a white police officer with a deep-rooted discrimination against blacks, or a black youth who hates those whites who discriminate against themselves, they may usually do some irrational behavior, but at critical moments, they will still be in a humanitarian spirit. Treat yourself and all people of other skin colors as earthlings to help and rescue.
Moreover, although conflict means the intensification of contradictions, it is also a kind of communication between people, races and races. This collision will make us "find certain feelings", which is better than being indifferent to each other. There was no communication coldly.

Yes, as long as there is a collision, there will be more understanding and communication, not only repulsion, but also fusion at the same time. It is important to know that the difference between humans and other animals is that humans have a large brain, can think, judge, and generate new ideas. And this is exactly what the film tries to provide for racial discrimination, a solution to such a huge historical worldwide problem. At the same time, it aroused people's thinking, and made the audience in front of the big screen feel comforted and hoped that they will not be so afraid and discouraged about such problems, and have a positive meaning.


After watching the entire movie, my personal thoughts are that this movie does present us with many angles, allowing us to get a rough idea of ​​the psychology and behavior of various races surrounding the issue of racial conflict. It took less than two hours to achieve this goal, which is indeed very good and very complete.
However, this ending is somewhat idealistic. Human consciousness, yes, it is indeed flexible and innovative, but it is also one of the most difficult things in the world to change. Resolving a conflict requires two aspects, many aspects, and even all the inextricable links related to this need to be adjusted and changed. This goes back to the early history of mankind and the problems involving mankind on a global scale are indeed difficult to solve. Not to mention the solution, even if it is moderated, a little reconciliation is a great success. In today's world, matter does have the upper hand in spirit. Without the driving force of interest, it may be difficult to solve the problem simply with the inspiration of spirit. But then again, problems like racial discrimination cannot be solved fundamentally if they are not based on changes in spirit and consciousness.
Therefore, it can only be said that the revolution has not yet succeeded, and comrades still have to work hard.


Going back to the movie, the title of the movie is still pretty good: a car crash. Only collisions have sparks.
And fire is destruction, but also new life.

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Extended Reading
  • Skylar 2022-03-25 09:01:05

    It is indeed better than "Brokeback Mountain" to win the Oscar. This kind of multi-line narrative style movie is the first most impressive movie I watched. In order to present the contradictions, frictions and fusions of multi-ethnic and multi-cultural, the film weaves a fine interpersonal network. Under the overall situation of circular narrative, fierce dramatic conflicts occur between unrelated people. And this non-linear time axis eventually defeated everyone’s psychological line of defense with a sense of fate that could not resist

  • Josefa 2022-03-23 09:01:12

    "Crash" (2004) is a terrible film because very few American films try to explore racism. Although the intention is good, the film does not break away from a melancholy plot. This melancholy is rooted in the desperate lives of wealthy whites in the suburbs, ambitious African-American police officers, Persian businessmen, and angry street wanderers. Not only did these people not show any psychological or intellectual complexity, but it is unreasonable to explain racism simply with a film describing individual loneliness, because "Crash" did not point out the powerful forces behind American racism. Economic and political power. The ending of the film is suggestive: a group of released Asian immigrants walks helplessly on the streets of New York, implying that although the protagonist of the film has tried his best to fight for justice, he has not brought any hope for the future of these unnamed aliens.

Crash quotes

  • Flanagan: Actually, we were thinking of you until we saw that. It's your brothers file. Twenty something years old and already three felonys. Three Strikes Law, the kid's going away for life for stealing a car. Christ, that's a shitty law. There's a warrant in there. But still, he had every opportunity you had. Fucking black people, huh?

    Graham: So, uh... all I need to do to make this disappear is to frame a potentially innocent man.

    Flanagan: What are you? The fucking Defender of All Things White? We're talking about a white that shot three black men and you're arguing with me, that maybe we're not being "fair" to him? You know, what? Maybe you're right. Maybe you're right. Maybe Lewis did provoke this. Maybe he got exactly what was coming to him. Or, maybe, stoned or not, being a black man in the valley was enough to get him killed. There was no one there to see who shot first, so there is no way way to know. Which means, we could get this wrong. Maybe that's what happened with your brother. Maybe we got it wrong. Maybe Lewis isn't the only one who deserves the benefit of the doubt. You're the one closest to all this. You need to tell us. What does your gut tell you?

  • Flanagan: The D.A's squad loses its lead investigator next month. Rick is quite adamant that his replacement be a person of color. It's a high profile position, and he wants to send the right message to the community.

    Graham: And the right message is look at this Black Boy I bought?