Social Construction

Rating: 7/10 (13 July 2009)

How could someone be born into a multicultural society and still see only what the naked eye lets you? There are no words to describe this kind of hatred; there are no words to explain this injustice. This interesting point is brought before the world, and the world is deceived with the inevitability of the fact that everyone has their justification. The justification that everyone has to pursue because there is no other choice, this justification would be death. The movie "Crash" written by Mark Lewison; acts as a mirror into the minds and hearts of everyday people. This movie lets us view who we (humanity), really are; and we are detestable and an undeserved people.
The setting is a Los Angeles involving characters that are inter-related to each other without even realizing this. There in the big city live these people with their opinions about everyone else except for themselves. These characters seem to have everyone else figured out, but what about their own lives? What about the configuring and bewildering issues that dwell in their own homes? There are at least seven situations involved in this story line and every one of these situations there is someone that is judging someone else for their construed information about their personal ethnic heritage. These problems are the key factor in this movie, to overcome and understand the real meaning of abhorrence of another person's race. To find out what it really means to be a person of the underlined text, and that is hope. Hope for the next person to come along and pick up where we left off at; and that place is understanding. To understand another people that are not from your own, traditionally we may call that wisdom.
To my understanding, as I watched this movie that was portrayed by brave characters, I see how humanity is reacting who we really are. As for the human race, we may have been one of those characters in that movie; we maybe under motivated and uncultivated too much for our own good. All I know is that this cycle has to stop somewhere and sometime soon.