Crash

This week was the first time i had ever seen the movie crash, and it really laid an impression on me. Its all about different accounts of everday racism, profiling and discrimination. Its amazing how much horrible action goes on everyday, but the ironic part is some of the worst crimes are committed by people who dont claim to be racist. The best example of this from the movie is when the off duty cop picks up the black guy as a hitch hiker, which is something a racist would never do. However, his implicit feelings take over and he cant avoid having hostile and cynical feelings about this man. He ends up shooting him dead because the cop thought the man was reaching for a gun out of his pocket, when in reality he was reaching for his st christopher amulet to relate to the white man. In lincolnshire we are not really exposed to this kind of overt racism, but we know it exists. The movie provided us with a visual, an alarming one at that. overall i liked the movie, even tho i missed day 1.