There are many film and television works that reflect the issues of race and immigration in the United States. As a white Canadian, the director also casts his perspective on the non-American race in the United States and observes their lives. In the movie, we can see that whites discriminate against non-Americans, and we also see mutual discrimination between non-Americans. The web-like structure of the story is like a loop, in which white police officers, dissatisfied with the attitude of black social workers, molested a black woman by taking advantage of their position, only to rescue her from the fire at a critical moment. The Persian businessman took his anger at the white man on the Mexican locksmith and nearly killed the locksmith's daughter. The scene of the shooting is the climax of the whole story, which makes people worry. At the moment of shooting, it seems that the world has frozen. Fortunately, there is the existence of "air bombs", so that the plot does not develop in an extremely dark direction. The innocence of the little girl is like It is a bright color that decorates the plot, and it seems to imply the director's intention. He hopes that all racial conflicts can have a happy ending. However, life is not so beautiful, and in the movie, too, the black boy holding the statue of Jesus was accidentally killed by the white police, as if to show the cruelty of reality.
On December 1, 1955, in Montgomery, Alabama, Rosa Parks, a black woman, was arrested for refusing to give a seat to a white passenger on a bus. Thus began the black civil rights movement.
In 1963, Martin Luther King Jr. delivered the "I have a dream" speech, which brought the black civil rights movement to a climax.
In 1968, Martin Luther King was shot and killed, but the black civil rights movement did not end there.
In 2008, Obama became the first black president in U.S. history.
However, nearly 60 years of efforts have not substantially changed the status of non-American people in the United States. Discrimination has just shifted to a more subtle direction. Some people say that the plot of "Crash" is too exaggerated and unreal. It is true that there are many elements of artistic exaggeration in the film, but to a certain extent, it truly shows the racial contradictions in American life today. The United States is a country of immigrants, but ironically, immigrants discriminate against each other, and the natives of the American continent are also discriminated against. The collision of different cultures and races has created a unique American life and a unique American contradiction.
More and more people go to the United States to realize the "American Dream", and small people survive in the cracks of life. I think this is one of the helpless themes of "Crash". I think the director is helpless. He is powerless to change anything. He is just recording every aspect of American immigrant life.
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