Crash by Paul Haggis - Movie Review Example

 “Crash” is a fascinating movie directed by Paul Haggis. The basic idea behind the movie is to show and make the viewers realize of the effects of racial discrimination in a community. In a discrete way it tells us about the point of view of how people from different races feel and think. Going through the lives of the whites, blacks, Iranians, Latinos and few other races in a community along with the cops, criminals, the rich and the poor it defines to us their feelings about racism and how they act towards it.

The movie shows that eventually everyone somehow becomes a victim to it and in one way or other all our guilty of it. Yes, sometimes, people are successful in avoiding racism but it has never been simple. Overall, the movie shows that racism affects a community in an instinctive and a dangerous way. The movie has proved to be quite interesting; it is quickly enough understood that who the characters are and how they live, but we wonder about their behaviour to each accident they face throughout the whole movie.

Mostly for variations people watch movies which enact rituals. "Crash" on the other is a movie that shows free will, and that there are vast possibilities for anything to occur. The movie plays its vital part in wrapping the viewers and getting them involved because as we go on, we develop a sense of care for the characters.Officer Hansen in the movie, in my opinion proves to be a very fascinating character. He is a white male who seemingly lived in a typical neighbourhood and fairly has the same normal views of an individual who comes from similar social background.

Officer Hansen is a considerate young man who doesn’t care about people’s social indifference. He is completely dissimilar to his partner Officer Ryan who doesn’t treat people of different race equally. In the late beginning of the movie he encounters a conflict between his partner and a black couple where his partner took advantage of his position and tried to vulgarly abuse the black man’s wife just because of the racial difference which was highly disliked by Officer Hansen. Hansen from the beginning of the movie proves to be a very special character who willingly accepts anyone from a different group, trying to help them and defend their rights against unfair treatment.

Officer Hansen is shown to be a common white man with a typical background who treats others equally without caring about any major events that had occurred in his lifetime regarding different groups. The uniqueness of Hansen from other characters is that he has not before had a lot of interaction with other groups, therefore he does fear and form falsehoods for them like most of the characters. Hansel could be thought of as either a minor or a major character in the movie, but I personally think that his extreme consideration towards other groups and his realization that the world is completely different than what he thought it was, makes him a very appealing and important character in the movie.

ReferencesCrash. Dir. Paul Haggis. USA: Lions Gate, 2004. Movie