Film Enrichment: Crash

Laura Cuk

In film enrichment…

• In film enrichment we watched 'Crash' starring Thandie Newton, , Sandra Bullock, Matt Dillon. This film was directed by Pal Haggis.

Question #1

• What is the film about?

• It is a film about the issues of race and gender in modern society which causes these LA citizens with completely separate lives which collide together in this American drama film.

Question #2

• What are the main themes of this film?

• Some of the main themes in the film are poverty, sexism, discrimmination, racism and prejudice.

Question #3

• Who was your favourite character? Why?

• I really liked the police officer character when he risked his life in the car accident to save the woman who was trapped. Even though this woman was the one he was touching in areas that she was uncomfortable with, he reasoned with her and got her out just in time before the car caught fire.

Question #4

• What was your favourite scene? Why?

• My favourite scene in the film was when the little girl ran in front of her dad (the mexican character) to protect him form the shooter. This is my favourite scene because it was very heartwarming how the little girl ran out like that.

Question #5

• Did you enjoy the film? Why?

• I enjoyed this film because it was interesting and opened my eyes to the immoralities of the American society.

In class…• In class we discussed the conventions in the film 'Crash'. We

talked about the conventions of action films and whether they were reinforced or challenged in 'Crash'. In my conventios table below i also gave film examples of where these conventions are also shown.

Conventions Scene example from Crash Scene examples from other films that are similar

Evokes emotion When the little girl risks her life to save her father.

My sisters keeper

Conflict The black director and his wife get into conflict with a police officer and when his wife gets harassed, the husband doesn’t do anything about it.

Adulthood

Multi ethnic conflict The white characters against the black characters.

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