we can make it

Theresa 2022-04-19 09:01:13

God decide humans got a little too much hubris and so made their lives miserable by giving everybody different languages.

It's all about a movie. A movie rose above because of the oscar, but gives a profound influence upon me far from that. The movie called crash. The movie told not merely the racial discrimination.
After I watched crash. I was really overwhelmed by the implication the director gave me. I can hardly say a word, just like the moment I finished the Prof Huntington's work the clash of civilization.
Both of them focus attention on the problem produced from the coming-together among different peoples. It is an irreconcilable dilemma. We can't treat the fewer group badly, cause it is a discrimination; and we can't treat them nicer, cause it is also called discrimination.
A young policeman with great justice killed a young black for he feared them deep inside, although he pitied their living situation from deep inside, too. It is no use that they both admired the same idol. Custom gives their gestures different meanings. They can 't communicate to each other from their birth.
But the hatred does not exist from the birth. Another policeman humiliated a black actress for releasing his depression got from a black nurse who refused to cure his father's pain. We hate the other people because they grab away our opportunities, and deprive of our necessities . We take for granted that it is reasonable and acceptable if it is our people gain a chance, because he works harder or smarter. If it is a different one, we affirm he is an evil. The racial discrimination offers us an access to explode our anger. The policeman, fortunately, saved the actress he hurt at first in a traffic accident. Thank god, let us average people catch a glimpse of light that shines down to us from a world lies beyond.
Just like the old Persian man was saved by an Arabian little girl. The angel, he realized later, provide him a second chance to live a peaceful life. In the new life, there will be no revenge in.
We can hardly overcome the irreconsilable difference between peoples, and probably the globalization is making things worse. Faced with the problem that deny us to solve, we have no sideways to avoid it. But there always a hope there, the human nature will save us all. At least, I believe it works, and we can make it.

Sometimes it falls upon a generation to be great. You can be that great generation.
---Nelson Mandela

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Extended Reading
  • 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.

  • Olin 2021-10-20 19:00:25

    It feels a bit too fake.

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?