Crash movie Review

What do you feel is the message the director is trying to express in this movie? Support your answer with examples.

• It feels as if the director wants you  to value your life. After watching this movie only once I remember now why I never watched it again. The lesson is good, but hard to watch. After all the events where people almost die and some actually do. It is very depressing to think that we only find out who we are when the situation actually happens to us. We can say one thing, but when it becomes realistic see who our true selves are.

If applicable , discuss if you think this movie has accurate depictions of minorities or if they are situational? Why or why not?

• The views on minorities sadly are pretty accurate. It seems most places I go that there is some racist view. However the years have improved. When applying for jobs, now there are specific places that will mention that all people are welcome and discrimination is unacceptable. Unlike the scene in the movie where the man complains about his lock not being fixed. The black man tries to inform him that his door needs fixed not just his lock and the Persian man thinks he is trying to rip him off.

Explain if you think the director’s ethnic/cultural/professional background played a role in directing this film?
What groups (people of color, nationality, culture, class,gender etc.) may be offended or misinterpret this movie and why?

• I do not think the directors background played a role, but I do think he made observations  in the real world and applied them to this movie. He has been around for a while therefore seen the good and the bad in people. We all have one time or another I am sure. There were so many racist remarks in this movie. Some of the remarks were comments on being called Arab when they were Persian, the term "nigga" being loosely used, and white people was also quite common throughout this movie.  

What the movie added to your visual literacy?What kind of artistic and/or visual means did the director use in the movie to focus our attention?

• One of the visual literacy parts of the movie that stuck out to me was the dad and the Persian man who owned the store. The Persian man had ventured to his house planning on killing him, but the daughter interjected. Earlier in the movie the dad was using his hands to imagine a fairy;s cloak being placed on the daughter. She remembered this and wanted to let her daddy use the cloak because it would protect him. As the young girl ran towards her dad who had just been shot at I could picture visually what they cloak she was trying to share may have looked like. It was a very emotional and touching part of the movie.
• here is the scene I am talking about
• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dxBw8RB1H54&feature=related