Sociological Analysis of a movie

Summary

Crash is a 2005 film and takes place in Los Angeles, California. The movie stimulates a actual existence occurrences where Porsche’s car was stolen on the field of a video hoard. Over a 36-hour period all the stories in the movie sarcastically connects with each other.  The film  leader starts by asserting , “it’s the sense of touch…we miss…so much that we crash into the other just so we can feel something (Berardo & Deardorff, 2012)”. The utilization of the statement “touch” shows the person relation.  “Feel” shows an intellect of feeling that people want the move from one another so that they can feel their human existence.  The review of this approach of individual relationship continues regardless of many unimportant issues that separate us, however it is the review itself but not the matters that provide the film’s main thesis.  The premise in the movie explores in respect of sociology by reviewing how the movie compacts within contest and sex issues (Berardo & Deardorff, 2012). 

What is sociologically important in the movie is about the ancient sex positions that deter the association amid people.  The movie reviews the functions of the ancient males of giver and defenders.  In the movie, there are constant struggles of power due to inequality between classes of people that exist in social class and races.  Social conflict emerges and connects the deviance to the power control in the society.  When people in power positions get into deviance, they face fewer punishments.  In the movie Crash, this is evident when a thief takes advantage of his role when he stops an African American couple for a less doubtful action.  He makes the couple get out of the car and violates the women in front of the husband (Berardo & Deardorff, 2012).    

            Cameron who tries to threaten a group of police officers almost dies.  His irresponsible action ends up comforting his wounded pride.  He is unable to pass decision to his companion for her ability to act irresponsibly, but he must excuse her.  The general prompt for their irresponsibility shares the problem of existing as an ethnic minority that shows him they are together in this.  Thus, they must proceed as friends and not opponents (Berardo & Deardorff, 2012). 

            Facing the dark moment in the film also puts us on approach besides the possibility of damage.  In the film, an American police officer is against discrimination.  On the other hand, in the final views, he offers a black walker and ride while not on duty.  While the other people make sociable discussion about the nation melody, the anti-racial police officer does not believe anything the person says (Berardo & Deardorff, 2012). 

The sociological significance

            Crash movie demonstrates how inflexible sex roles can deter the connections amid people.  In one view, a racist police officer John Ryan pulls over a black film director, Cameron.  Cameron is together with his wife, begins provoking the detective, and refuses to abide by even at Cameron’s frequent demand.  Therefore, she checks if they have guns.  When Cameron reacts with no violence and John plays his wife in a sexually reminiscent manner, she perceives him for not protecting her.  She also blames him of permitting her disgrace so that his workmates could read about him on the papers and notices that he is black (Haltinner, 2014). 

            In the panorama at the movie cottage where Cameron expresses and does not appear to be in fear, he concurs to make the prospect more conventional.   If Cameron is laid off due to his community status, he would finally not pass in providing his role.  This makes him torn between two equal demanding roles and the role perceives through ethnic prejudice he faces.  A split occurs amid him and his wife who claims to be hurt that her husband did not protect her (Haltinner, 2014).  He is annoyed about his wife’s antagonism towards the police detective that he takes as irresponsible. The most noticeable panorama in viewing man as a defender is the rescuer from the scorching car collision. However, there are more matters at the play in the scene, the fact remains that sex is a distinctive damsel in sorrow circumstances. The man is the one viewed as a protector or the person to rescue.  The woman represents a damsel who is unable to protect herself.  To the society that has learned to view sexual category in ancient roles, the panorama could not have depicted vice versa.  It is not obvious for a feminine to put a man out of risk (Haltinner, 2014). 

            The subject who seems to challenge sexual category positions is the Persian woman, Dorri who is a physician. By functioning in an environment that considers masculine gender, she fights against the ideas of sex roles.  While conquering the sexual category positions, she is vulnerable to the patriarchal philosophy in her other existence status.  She shows her fear to her father although it is obvious that she is sophisticated and has enhanced awareness of the earth. The feminine police officer Ria is a different lady who depicts more than a man.  She is strong and a woman of her profession. Conversely, she permits Graham to utilize and disgrace her during sex. Graham informs his mother that he is slumbering with an American woman with the aim of irritating her.  Ria does not instantly wakes up and disappear but the issue of her being on the unhealthy relationship disgraces her feminine power (Haltinner, 2014).

The Critique

            Many of the female characters show the conventional and submissive roles including the typical servile, silent wife and Graham’s mother.  In many of these, besides sex that form their roles as a Middle Eastern culture, there is a racial typecast and social class. There are other issues to think about such as race and society, the gender of these subjects decide their positions.  This is for the reason that the subjects are women permitted to be obedient and powerless (Cartwright & Shingles, 2011).

            The subject that defines the ideological patriarchy and ancient sex roles is Shaniqua who is the HMO manager. When Ryan the police detective talks to her on phone, she hangs up on him rather than forcing his critical explanation. After confronts, she does not give into threats and in this case, she gets into power position and his gender gives him no power control. I believe she claims to show a muscular African woman with the stress being on her race and not the sex (Cartwright & Shingles, 2011).

            I recommend the film to the public as it deals on how people see each other and the judgments that people make based on appearance of others. The movie shows the use of typecasts and the damage that they cause. The film does not challenge the female stereotype but it is clear that the filmmakers did not try to ignore the feminist issue but focused on the race issues.  In trying to view the movie sociologically, the public learns that the daily-unrevealed prejudices that people carry around like weapons distort the universe and make us liars and deceivers. Crash is about racism, every character in the film is racialist about another racial group.  Most of the subjects are in denial about their vagueness and live detached from truth. This is not the truth that we actually know, but the truth that comprises both good and bad (Cartwright & Shingles, 2011).           

References

Berardo, K., & Deardorff, D. K. (2012). Building cultural competence: Innovative activities and models. Sterling, VA: Stylus.  

Cartwright, L., & Shingles, R. R. (2011). Cultural competence in sports medicine. Champaign, IL: Human Kinetics.

In Haltinner, K. (2014). Teaching race and anti-racism in contemporary America: Adding context to colorblindness. 

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