The Movie Crash
...an intouchable" (The African American Dream). Americans live their lives afraid to touch one another due to their differences in beliefs, backgrounds and ethnicities. Each person lives in a dream which separates them from reality and from the truth. Because they are afraid to have contact with others unlike themselves, they rely on stereotypes to determine people's identity which causes their perceptions of the world to be distorted. They are resistant to leave their comfort zone and they fail to attempt to understand the people around them. They are sleepers in their own dreams afraid to awaken to reality. Their only opportunity to understand one another is by unintentionally crashing into one another.
However, when they crash, their emotions are driven by fear which prevents them from awakening from their reality. Dreams are often deferred due to fear. Fear of the unknown and facing reality. Each character in the film, Crash has a fear of other people unlike themselves. They find it difficult to leave their border space and enter the comfort zone of others. There is a blind fear which prevents them from breaking the boundaries which separates them from the people surrounding them. They use stereotypes as way to judge others and keep people at a distance in order to avoid interaction. Their form of resistance focuses on identifying the differences between themselves and failing to recognize the similarities. As sleepers in their own reality, people tend to judge people by stereotypes, which alters a person's identity causing them to reach a point where they must resist the conforms of society.
The character, Cameron Thayer, plays an African American television producer. His character displays how an African American male feels he needs to manipulate his method of thinking in order to survive in American society. Our society has molded people to...
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