For this entry, I chose to do the movie “Crash”. The movie is centered around race relations in everyday life. The movie begins with one storyline about a prominent white district attorney of Los Angeles being car-jacked by two disenfranchised black males. Another story focuses on a latino locksmith and a Persian shop owner who has his store vandalized, and blames the locksmith for not fixing it correctly. Another angle focuses on a white police officer, who through his years on the force has attributed racism against blacks to his personality due to his view of the things he has been a part of while on the job. In the movie you see stereotypical roles on races, such as the white district attorney, the car-jacking black males, the thug-looking latino with a low paying job, and the middle-eastern shop owner. The movie does an incredible job in pointing out the stereotypes races have of other races, and showing how even though people may feel their race is just different......
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