even if i had watched this film a number of times, there is a particular scene that never fails to move me.
when the racist and lecherous officer attempts to rescue the incapacitated woman, a woman he just molested the night before, she understandably and heartwrenchingly pleads and screams : "NOT YOU! SOMEBODY ELSE, PLEASE! ANYBODY BUT YOU!"
this scene moves me for two reasons. the first is the primal fear and hatred that she has for the officer. the second is the ironic outcome of the officer having to ask for the woman's permission to TOUCH her in order to free her from the seatbelt's grip. allow me to elaborate my views further.
it is important to notice that for a moment, the woman forgets that her life is in danger. upon seeing the officer's face and recognizing him as the violator of her dignity, she forgets that she is about to die. in this case, her survival instinct is overwhelmed by other forces - HATE & FEAR.
hate & fear make us forget that we are destined to live. hate & fear make us forget who we are and who we are with. hate & fear reduce us to instinctive animals - screaming, scratching and gnarling at anything that tries to come our way. hate & fear removes our capacity to recognize a face who at that very moment may care. hate & fear prevents us from taking a hand which at that very moment may be reaching out to ours. hate & fear causes us to focus on our wounds, on our pains, on our tragedies. we rant on endlessly. needlessly. nauseously. we become broken records of our own broken-ness.
hate & fear make us forget who we are and what we are capable of. we are far more capable than hating or fearing all the time. we are far more capable than closing in to our own world and shutting everybody out. we are far more capable of living life freely, of sharing a love fully, of being humane completely.
how do we move out of hate & fear? the film is very clear on this point. we move out of fear & hate NOT by pouring out fear & hate in return. we move out of fear & hate by TOUCHing the lives of others and allowing others to TOUCH our own.
it is with a TOUCH that the officer freed the woman from the obstructive seatbelt. it is with a TOUCH that the officer comforts her after he saves her from the blazing inferno. by not giving up on her even if he was already pulled out by his companions, by choosing to go back to pull her out from a certain death, he realized he could no longer be the man he was before. that he could no longer live the way he did before. by TOUCHing her, by FREEING her, he profoundly FREED himself.
i know that you have been hurt once before. all of us have once swore never to be fooled again, never to trust again. we have seen how cruel some people can be. how cruel this world can be. if one were to be truly honest and reflective, we have even seen how cruel we can be.
now i'm not going to say that everybody you meet from now on would be kind, that the world would be a perfect place just because you watched CRASH.
the question in life is, in the midst of people's unkindness, in the face of people's indifference and lack of concern, DO YOU DO THE SAME? when people refuse to TOUCH each others lives and choose to spill out words of and act from HATE, IGNORANCE and FEAR, DO YOU RESPOND IN KIND?
do you also speak and act from HATE, IGNORANCE and FEAR?.
as the movie has artistically shown, we can never help "CRASHING" into each other's lives. i am here and you are there. wherever you are, other people will be with you. we cannot spend our lives shouting "NOT YOU! SOMEBODY ELSE, PLEASE! ANYBODY BUT YOU!" if we do, we will end up dying in an overturned vehicle of our pains, fears, hatred and sidetracked dreams.
take a chance. TOUCH someone's life.
32 comments:
We really touch lives without just knowing it. We have an impact on each other even in the smallest thing. In my 19 years on this earth, I've met a lot of people. Some have hurt me, some mislead me but only a few still stand today with my full trust.
Maybe it's my fault why I get hurt. I trust in somebody or in people too fast. I sometimes think that trust is a lie. To quote Nathan Scott in One Tree Hill, "Trust is a lie. Nobody knows anymore." We get blinded by first impressions and 'pakitang tao' attitudes of people so we often trust them in a just a snap. When we do, they take us for granted.
Hayyy people.
Trust is something sacred especially in relationships. It cannot stand without it.
I wanna quote one of my favorite wrestlers Stone Cold Steve Austin, "Don't trust anybody." With what's happening with the world, I'm this close to adopting Nathan and Stone Cold's sayings.
Somebody change my mind.
i don't think you'll ever go to that point ms. bartolome. you have friends around you. from what i've seen and heard, they care for you as much as you care for them.
don't lose hope. anger and despair are two things you can never LOSE by GIVING IN.
sometimes, the easiest thing in life is to give in to anger and despair. to hate the world you feel has hated you all your life.
giving in to hate and despair may be the easiest and most natural thing to do. but it certainly is not the most liberating nor the BRAVEST thing to do.
staying angry, afraid and apathetic is the coward's way out.
to trust and love takes more inner strength. to trust and love takes a lot more guts.
The acting is good but the movie is basically about a bunch of racist people being racist to each other and fulfilling sterotypes with their own behavior.
The movie Crash just reinforce outdated beliefs that every people is prejudiced, and that the sterotypes are correct. It promotes suspicion and mistrust among people's races and is destructive.
Also the other races aren't given quite as much screen time, they pretty much focused on the black ones.
Lastly, I think Crash shouldn't won the Oscars for best film because I like Brokeback Mountain!!!.
Justine Estrella = 2007!!!
i'm sure you did justine. :) thanks for your honesty.
ei now, only two comments so far? post your "takehome" quiz (worth 20%) everyone. remember, to get a high grade, go beyond 1-2-sentence paragraphs. be more concrete with your examples or views.
comment here or send them to my email: josonad@dls-csb.edu.ph
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There are things about races that you just can't take off your mind and it may be the reason why we still think of some races badly.
Also we touch lives, we change how we see things in our way. The other lives that we touched may also be influenced by us and how we see things.
There is this part when the police officer gave the Chief's brother a ride. The scene gave me the message that a simple misunderstanding between them can kill. (but for their part its literal)
-Miguel Poblete
Sir. thanks for the blog...by doing this, you're also touching other's lives...
At first, the movie is like nothing to me...it's just like any other film, and The Title, CRASH had no impact on me...But as the movie goes, i slowly understood the message of the story! it's not literally Crashing or bumping into something! IT's how you TOUCH and MOVE the lives of others!
For me, this is a good film because of its unique message...its nicer than the Brokeback Mountain because i haven't watched it!!!
Jerome Jose
The film was great. No wonder it won the Oscar in 3 categories.It was my first time to see it in class and I was caught a bit off guard with it's racial tension themes and its unpredictability.
In this film, each person is a victim of a hate crime but is also guilty a crime of their own. They show feelings of hate and anger and nobody understand why one would act so dangerous. Eventhough it happens everyday. Watching this film is like watching a documentary, the reality of the film's message was obvious, especially when your from California.(pero paano dito sa pinas?)
Somehow, I'm not astonished that it's one of those Oscar upsets in Hollywood history that will BE forgotten completely. CRASH's success should be credited,for scenes depicted in the film are scenes that people can relate to. Scenes that they encounter all day, everyday.
A lot of films try to reach out and have messages of "stopping the anger" and not much have achieved this.
Staying angry, being fearful and apathetic may be the coward's way out but it's still a way out.
Yes, we all yearn to be the bravest of them all.Stand by our BELIEFS and FIGHT for them!-- But, YOU know there can only be a handful who survives fights. It's either be beaten or be the beater.
I'm not contradicting Sir Doug's statements. All I'm saying (based from what I've been through this 22 years) is that WE need to KNOW our ANGER and FEAR so we can understand why we have them, use them as a positive driving force, so that we LEARN from our mistakes, so the next time we fall down, it would not hurt so much as the first time we did.
Funny how things get screwed up so bad sometimes, only to realize we ARE STILL standing... Standing BETTER and STRONGER... This is a crazy and cruel world we are living in. AND(for me) the only reason why STILL we want to live in this GOD forsaken place is because of the people WHO have TOUCHED our lives. Because of THEM, we don't have to burden ourselves with too much trouble we can't handle, because of THEM, we learned to stand up from where we fell. Because of THEM, we still have HOPE, and that's all that matters.
Aminin mo man o hindi, alam mo na ito'y totoo.
Just be careful in taking chances, especially when YOU are touching peoples lives, because you can affect them, far more than they can affect you, may it be for better or for worse.
CARPE DIEM!
-ryan bernaldo
The movie Crash started with a scene depicting what the title says -- cars crashed and people fighting. Nothing special but as the movie went on, the meaning of "Crash" became deeper. From a mere collission of objects to an ironic meeting of people as if it were destiny. Events may lead and connect to another.
An example would be back when the Persians bought a gun and took a random set of ammo and the time when the storekeeper desided to kill the locksmith with his gun. The shot the locksmith but it so happened that the ammo they took were blanks. This scene may also be connected to the time the locksmith gave his daughter a "magic scarf". The daughter jumped right in when the gun was fired. Now what if the ammo weren't blanks? Did the scarf really worked? Purely coincidental.
Such destinies look like they are only possible in movies but these scenarios can really happen in real life.
^
- james ong
hahaha the movie is nice isn't it?
and sir i agree with your post.
-michelle sy
The first time I saw the trailer of crash in the movie I ddint bother to watch it. So it was actually nice that we watched it in class. The movie Crash taught me 3 things. 1. That whatever we do we cannot hide from out mistake. 2. That we are really connected to one another and 3. That a person never really knows who his friends are until they are in trouble.
As seen in the movie Crash we really cannot hide from our mistakes. What we should do instead of hiding or turingin away from our mistakes we should just face it because you never know that by facing your mistakes it could mean a really big difference to you and the person whom you commited that mistake to. Just like in the officers c ase that even if he learned that he had made a mistake to the lady in the car he still saved her and instead of leaving her he faced his mistake and tried to save the ladies life.
The movie also showed me how connected we are to one another. By knowing this it makes me think first with the actions that I do to others. Whatever action I do whether good or bad will affect not only the person I did the action to but also to his network and in turn it could affect a lot of people whether positively or negatively.
The third thing that struck me most is when Sandra Bullock told to her maid that she was her bestfriend. Ive seen this happen to my mum before. I had a god mother who wasnt that rich and she and my mother were really close. My mother who is more well off than my god mother gived gifts to my god mother whenever my mum would go to other countries. But when my god mother got rich she forgot the friendship with my mum because she thought that she doesnt need my mum anymore. This is an example that you could never really trust a friend until you reach troubled time. Thats why we shouldnt trust a person with everything because you dont really know if they are just taking you for granted. You never know that the person who least trust might just be the person who would be there for you.
-Alexander Terol
At first, i don't really get why the movie was entitled "Crash". But as i watched the movie, i finally understood that it is not just about racism, but about how a person "crashes" into other person's life.
A person is never just a somebody, he is destined to be a part of someone's life.. whether to touch or destroy. Just like the policeman in this movie, he's not only a man who molested the lady but also the one who saved her during a car crash.
And like you, sir.. you're not just the professor who walks in the class and blabber til we fall asleep(but im not saying na boring kayu ha..) but the man who let us watch "Crash" and made me realize that everyone has his own purpose in life.. =)
-mj reyes
"It's the sense of touch. In any real city, you walk, you know? You brush past people, people bump into you. In L.A., nobody touches you. We're always behind this metal and glass. I think we miss that touch so much, that we crash into each other, just so we can feel something."
These are the first lines of the movie and it explains so much. The movie was so full of events, emotions and moments that it is really hard to sum it all up.
The movie is very diverse. They showed different types of people with different nationalities. It shows the discrimination amongst them, be it the African Americans, Americans, Arabs, Persians, Mexicans, Puerto Ricans, and even the Chinese and Koreans. It also shows how different points-of-view of each and how they are being treated by others.
They are all so different with each other, yet they are all connected somehow. They crash into each other’s lives and make a difference, good or bad.
Rick Cabot (Brendan Fraser) is the white district attorney of Los Angeles. He and his wife Jean are carjacked by Anthony and Peter (both of whom are black). Subsequently, the Brentwood resident tries to save his political career by reassuring voters that he is racially sensitive (as he is a Democrat and African Americans and Hispanics are his key demographics). His character is never depicted as a bigot, which makes his racial stance ambiguous.
Jean Cabot (Sandra Bullock) is Rick's white wife, whose racial prejudices escalate after the carjacking. At the end of the film, following an accident in her home, she realizes that the person who is the nicest and most helpful to her is Maria, her Hispanic maid, while her snobby friends are too busy with shallow to help her out.
Anthony (Chris "Ludacris" Bridges) is an African-American inner-city car thief. He believes that society is unfairly biased against blacks. At one point in the film he justifies his actions by saying he would never hurt another black person. Yet, after he and Peter mistakenly try to carjack a car driven by a black man, Cameron, and when Cameron attacks Anthony during the carjacking, Anthony's response is to call on Peter to shoot Cameron.
Peter Waters (Larenz Tate) is Anthony's friend and partner in crime. Like Anthony, he is black, but he scoffs at Anthony's paranoia over racism. The only character killed throughout all of the film's near-tragedies, Peter is shot to death by Officer Hansen, who picks him up in the valley hours after their failed carjacking and mistakenly shoots him after assuming he is drawing a gun, when in reality he was reaching into his pocket to show the cop a figure of Saint Christopher.
Graham Waters (Don Cheadle) is a detective in the Los Angeles Police Department. He is disconnected from his poor family. He promises his mother that he will find his younger brother, but is preoccupied with a case concerning a racist white cop who shot a possibly corrupt black cop. Flanagan offers him the chance to further his career and clear his brother's record in exchange for leaving out what is controversial evidence. Graham, offended and opposed at first, is convinced with some arguments for affirmative action in a private conversation with Flanagan. In the end he makes a very difficult personal decision to withhold evidence and possibly corrupt a case in order to clear his brother's name. Ironically, that brother is eventually revealed to be Peter, the carjacker who is killed by Officer Hansen.
Ria (Jennifer Esposito) is a Latina detective, as well as Graham's partner and girlfriend. The two have an intimate, but conflicted, relationship. When a phone call from Graham's mother interrupts his sexual romp with Ria, Ria becomes upset that Graham 1) stopped having sex to answer the phone, 2) was disrespectful to his mother on the phone, and 3) called Ria "white" and later "Mexican." According to Ria, she is not Mexican: because her mother is from El Salvador and her father is from Puerto Rico. Later in the day, she and Graham are rear-ended by an Asian driver, and Ria exhibits some racist remarks toward the Asian woman.
Officer John Ryan (Matt Dillon) is a white police officer who molests Christine, a black woman, during a traffic stop. This causes his partner, Officer Hansen, to believe his partner has racist tendencies. Meanwhile, Ryan is trying to get help for his father, who may have prostate cancer but seems to have been misdiagnosed with a bladder infection. Ryan's racist remarks to a black insurance representative makes her assure him she will not help his father get the treatment he needs. His racial prejudices seem to stem in part from the negative impact that local affirmative action-style policies that favored minority businesses had on his father's business, family, and life. Ryan later relieves the viewers of his racist tendencies when he is seen working with a newly-assigned, Hispanic-American partner toward whom he seems to show no signs of prejudice — especially when he puts his own life on the line to save Christine from certain death in a fiery car wreck.
Officer Tom Hansen (Ryan Phillippe) is Officer Ryan's partner who is disgusted by his partner's racism and the city's inaction. When he fails to get another partner, Hansen accepts a solo patrol vehicle. Hansen saves Cameron during his confrontation with the police. However, he later picks up a hitchhiker who turns out to be Peter. When Peter reaches for what Hansen suspects is a weapon, Hansen overreacts, draws his gun, and shoots Peter. Hansen hastily dumps the body and burns his car in an attempt to hide evidence. One of the most surprising developments in the film occurs because Officer Hansen, despite his initial integrity and resistance to racist ideas, takes to heart Officer Ryan's last words to him (telling him he too will develop racist instincts with more experience on the force).
Cameron Thayer (Terrence Howard) is a black television director who becomes distraught after witnessing Officer Ryan molest his wife and realizing that the very show he produces is propagating racist stereotypes about black people. In an emotional moment, he fights off Anthony and Peter when they try to steal his car, takes away Anthony's gun, and gets himself into a harsh argument with armed white police officers. Just when it is very likely that he will be shot to death, Officer Hansen intervenes on his behalf and prevents any outbreak of violence.
Christine Thayer (Thandie Newton) is Cameron's wife. She is molested by Officer Ryan after she and Cameron are pulled over. She becomes furious with her husband because he does not act to defend her. The two argue insult each other over their upbringings as both Cameron and Christine have grown up in a more privileged environment than other African Americans (Cameron insults her for being on her high school's exclusively white and privileged equestrian team). The next day she is trapped in an overturned car due to a highway accident and, by an exquisite twist of fate, Officer Ryan is the man who willingly endangers himself to save her life.
Daniel (Michael Peña) is a Mexican-American locksmith who faces discrimination from Jean and others because he looks like a "gangbanger" (has tattoos, shaved head, baggy jeans) to them, when he is actually a devoted family man. He is seeking a safe environment for his young daughter, Lara, who had a bullet go through her window in their previous home. That is why he moved to a safe neighborhood and enrolled her in a private school. He and his daughter are shot at by Farhad but are not harmed due to a surprising twist of fate.
Farhad (Shaun Toub) is a Persian store owner who is afraid for his safety. He is depicted as a man frustrated by the racial harassment he experiences in the United States, as well as deterred by difficulties with speaking English (despite being an American citizen). To protect his store — the only thing his family has — he goes to a gun shop and attempts to buy a gun. The gun store owner quickly becomes frustrated with Farhad's conversation with his daughter in Persian, leading to racist remarks and his refusal to sell Farhad a gun. He sells the gun to Farhad's daughter after being cryptic and lecherous about which bullets she needs. Farhad's suspicion of others is compounded by his difficulty speaking English: he does not heed Daniel's warning that his shop door needs replacing, believing Daniel intends to "cheat" him, and as a result suffers a break-in. Blaming Daniel for the invasion and racially-motivated destruction of his store, he confronts him at his house and is about to fire the gun at him. Daniel's daughter Lara rushes to her father's aid; she believes herself to be wearing a "special" cloak that, her father has told her, is impenetrable and thus will protect them both. Farhad fires at Daniel but accidentally shoots his daughter, to the horror of both Daniel and Farhad. However, unknown to Farhad and Daniel, the gun is loaded with blanks. The fact that the daughter is not hurt is a great relief to Farhad, who believes an angel intervened, and he leaves without further incident.
These are the main characters of the movie and each has a story to tell. Each of them make a difference in another’s life. They may be different in many ways but they are equally capable to touch each other’s lives. We may all look different but we have to respect that each life has a meaning and we are all just trying to survive.
Let us try to understand each other without judging by the way we look or the way we live. Let us try to get past our perceptions of each other and give others a chance to show who they really are.
*Character profiles were taken from wikipedia.- I thought it might be helpful.*
-Ana Lopez
My favorite in the movie was that it made me see how amazingly good-natured people really are despite their misbehavior and their poor perception of the things around them. I mean, it was seen in the movie that despite all the evil that is flowing within them, it is still impossible for a person to be purely just bad. It was a good reminder to me that everyone really deserves a chance--even the most difficult person that one can think of is deserving.
About the theme of the story, it's indeed an eye-opener for everyone and it is good that more races were included this time. I think that somehow (read: somehow), people have already out-grown discrimination. It's just that since it has been there for so long, it has done a huge damage to the society that until now, it is still a problem to the victims. (it had turned everyone into paranoids...exaggerating) We have a better situation now because at present, people appreciate the beauty of those races that have long been discriminated. (And it's good because i'm chinita and people appreciate chinita now and white ladies are not the only "hot" people in the world.hehe)
I appreciated the movie. especially the scene with the persian guy who shot the girl but nothing happened. I mean, i'm still boothered... how'd that happen?!
--chrissa salta
My favorite in the movie was that it made me see how amazingly good-natured people really are despite their misbehavior and their poor perception of the things around them. I mean, it was seen in the movie that despite all the evil that is flowing within them, it is still impossible for a person to be purely just bad. It was a good reminder to me that everyone really deserves a chance--even the most difficult person that one can think of is deserving.
About the theme of the story, it's indeed an eye-opener for everyone and it is good that more races were included this time. I think that somehow (read: somehow), people have already out-grown discrimination. It's just that since it has been there for so long, it has done a huge damage to the society that until now, it is still a problem to the victims. (it had turned everyone into paranoids...exaggerating) We have a better situation now because at present, people appreciate the beauty of those races that have long been discriminated. (And it's good because i'm chinita and people appreciate chinita now and white ladies are not the only "hot" people in the world.hehe)
I appreciated the movie. especially the scene with the persian guy who shot the girl but nothing happened. I mean, i'm still boothered... how'd that happen?!
--chrissa salta
hi chrissa,
the bullets in the gun were blanks. :) (red box)
- ana
I really enjoyed the movie, from all the movies I've watched during class hours Crash was my favorite.
The movie depicted the reality of racism not only in US but the world. The movie brought up characters from a variety of countries, this showed how each of us criticize the person by appearance and skin color.
I was quite annoyed by the different tragic incidents in the film, especially when the policeman molested the black woman. I was quite ashamed of the Korean guy who kept the prostitutes in the van. This showed the exact reality of some Koreans who do this for their living by recruiting prostitutes from other parts of the world and selling these young girls to Korean bars or whatsoever. The movie showed the weakness and harshness of mankind and depicted how man could be complex and so sinful. Well, I realize now why the movie is titled Crash, because everything which where interconnected just collided with each other and ended up in a big crash.
This is one movie I would like to watch once again..
-SEUNG JAE LEE DT1-
The movie was great, the actors and actresses were great. And the movie has something to do with our every day living.
Great actors and actresses, Brendan Frazier, Ludacris, Sandra Bullock, Don Cheadle and more showed in the film what life is.
For me, Of course, discriminating one's raise is very bad, and we have to respect one's race, whether it's black, asian or even white. that is the message of the film. the different faces of people on what we call life.
- Jeanne Lampadio
The movie is super realistic and eye opener. It tells us that our lives are interconnected. My mistake can cause the mishap of another. People tend to think that when you do something wrong, you're the one responsible for it. Well, the movie proved it wrong. Others will be affected too. And in the movie, racial discrimination was greatly emphasized.
Personality is based on race. Where black are named as Criminals, white ones are the superior and the arabs/persians are terrorists. Even though how hard people try to avoid discrimination, it's still there. It's a system. The movie is nice and is related to the real world.
I really liked the movie and I agree with one odf the comments you can't help being touched or crashing to people either good or bad you just have to show your best side always now i'm not saying you should always be nice to people cause there are really times when you have to know to hold your ground but always try see the person for what he/she really is like and what are their true intentions cause you can mis judge if the person is trying to help or harm like the case of the officer trying to save the woman in the burning Car. um that's about for my comment.
-Migsy
We touch lives not only physically BUT emotionally. We're can get into their emotions which can lead to; adoration or hate. We easily trust peoples. I admit, i'm one of them.
After watching "Crash". It opened my mind. I was once a racist. I look-down on mostly black-americans. I mean, what can I do? I grew in a society which degrades black peoples. It's just like a poison, which poisons everybody's mind. It hurts a lot of peoples in many ways. But if we can set aside that hate or disgust we feel for others. We just have to be open with everything.
Fear. Well, I fear almost everything. I fear of tomorrow, today. I can't just get off the feeling. Maybe it's just natural. But I think it's a disorder. Disorder of a person that feared almost everything in his life. Feared of being laughed with. Feared of being alone with strangers. Why can't we be open to everybody else? Because of fear. We live in a world of fear. Maybe because some people did this and that to us. But should we live our life with fear? For me no. We have to face each day. Be brave. Stand up. Tell the world that they can never take away your dignity.
Because dignity is the core of being a human being. Why should be stepped-on right?. So be brave. And face tomorrow with face-up.
the movie crash, mirrors how people treat other people different from them.i must admit that sometimes iam guilty of this but maybe its just natural for people to do this because when people like us go to other place or places they are also treated the same way...
we should all give everybody a chance to prove themselves...its not based on the race that we or the characters are in but a chance to prove themselves that other races are also capable of doing lots of things... or maybe they can do it better than others..
(sir. this is my 2nd entry gnalngan ko pa nmn dun sa isa...ahahahaha..)-->karren april d. ore
Anonymous said...
the movie crash, mirrors how people treat other people different from them.i must admit that sometimes iam guilty of this but maybe its just natural for people to do this because when people like us go to other place or places they are also treated the same way...
we should all give everybody a chance to prove themselves...its not based on the race that we or the characters are in but a chance to prove themselves that other races are also capable of doing lots of things... or maybe they can do it better than others..
(sir. this is my 2nd entry gnalngan ko pa nmn dun sa isa...ahahahaha..)-->karren april d. ore
People always have someone to trust, someone to love and someone to care. Friends are one of the most important for me. Trust binds us together.
hay buhay...
I thought I had good friends when I was in high school. they left me when I needed them. There came a time that I dont want to trust people again..but hey! I met new people and brought back "trust" in me. They were always there. eventhough sometimes I hurt them, they were still there to undertand and forgive me. i realized that there's no harm in trusting coz it's about loving.
People always have someone to trust, someone to love and someone to care. Friends are one of the most important for me. Trust binds us together.
hay buhay...
I thought I had good friends when I was in high school. they left me when I needed them. There came a time that I dont want to trust people again..but hey! I met new people and brought back "trust" in me. They were always there. eventhough sometimes I hurt them, they were still there to undertand and forgive me. i realized that there's no harm in trusting coz it's about loving.
sir its me Ejcastanos!!!!
michelle sy.
We live in a world that we encounter a lot of people.
school. work. mall. grocery...everywhere.
and i know life sometimes suck by being dissapointed with people. but i guess it's life. sometimes even though it hurts (and i myself is finding a hard time in doing this) maybe we should just let go.
like in the movie crash, the woman gave permission in the end to let the officer touch her,because her life was literally in danger... and our pride is also involved. but humility comes and we must decide on what is better in the long run.
I learned many things with this movie "crash".
i think again about racial discrimination when i was watched the part, when the police gave shame to the negro. many people think that we are better than negros. but it is not.
I was surprise when the police try to save her. ever she don't like him to save her, he did his best to save her.
She should not discriminate anyone. Nobody told us to to that. and we should not do it.
This movie touched me, when I watched this movie I could think racial discrimination is not only black-white but also all nations conflict.
If we respect for each ohter, there will be no that reacial discrimination.
- Baek Seunghye
Crash was an amazing movie, that circled around the different stories of the most diverse crowds in L.A. It showed how different cultures live together. Crash shows the power of racism through all eyes of those involved, from the victims to the wrong doers. It includes every aspect in our life related to prejudice and racism. It questions us and bothers us that how true all of these things are. People are insulting other people with out knowing him/her. We see small glimpses of each character but every character is complex, filled and personally I felt related to them all.
It was really hard for me to admit that these things are really happening.
And even though it would be easier to see this as a movie about issues revolving around the color of our skin or the country we are born in, I found it to be more about being human and dealing with the countless misunderstandings, whether we realize it or not, that we take part in each day, and that, despite our weaknesses, we are capable of amazing acts of courage, and, despite our goodness, we are capable of much evil, any of which transcends color, country of origin, religious belief, or economic status.
-Joeanne Pelo
It was my first tym to watch this movie. At first, i thought that this will be boring, but it wasn't. It was a great movie and a movie where we can learn many lessons in life.
In the movie, the characters are not aware that they all have connections in each other.In reality, God is the director, world is the setting, and all of us are the characters. We all have connections in each other, we may touch others' lives even though we're not aware of it.
And yeah, how can i forget.. That we should respect each other's religion and race. People should stop discriminating. I remember when I was still in my baby group or kinder garten days, my teacher in religion always tells us that we are created by God equally so we should be fair with one another. And so, i don't see any reasons why we should discriminate someone.
And i can still remember some priests always telling people to treat each other as siblings.
One of the benildean core values is "accepting differences", although you're not a benildean, you should still practice this value..
And in the Bible, it is said that what u are doing to others, u are doing it to God. So when u are discriminating others and hurting them, it is God u r hurting. God wants us to love each other.
So if you want to be respected, then learn how to respect... God Bless.. :)
I don’t like real life and this is why I want to be a filmmaker. I don’t want to be held down by things I can’t manipulate. My personal hostility towards reality fuelled my love for movies. For some reason, I cry every time I watch Anak and never shed a tear when I graduated from high school, where I made the greatest and most intelligent friends anyone could ask for. My stomach hurts with laughter every time I see Pinay Pie but my best friend, who is well loved and is found funny by everyone else, can count on one hand how many times she so much as elicited a smile from me.
Remember what I said about honesty and how I have too much of it? I have a theory why enough seems like too much: Nobody really likes real life. We don’t want to believe that while our daughters are going off to college, someone else’s son is off to war. We don’t want to think about a starving, HIV-infected African child while we’re enjoying a 100something-peso Mocha Frapuccino at an air-conditioned Starbucks.
The same way we don’t want to acknowledge the fact that, in this day and age of the iPod and the no-stick frying pan, racism still exists.
It sounds so primitive to me, racism. I’m no stranger to discrimination (I’ve had encounters with annoying salespeople), but racism? In America of all places? America, the Land of the Free and Home of the Fried Chicken?
Unfortunately, Crash is a movie that is very close to reality. I admire it because of its bluntness, its straightforwardness and its applicability. Granted, not all races could possibly have been represented in the film and it might not have achieved dead accuracy, but overall, the producers made their point.
It’s mind-boggling how despite Ella Fitzgerald’s contributions to Jazz, Jennifer Lopez’s success, and Lucy Liu’s status as one of the most beautiful women in the world, a number of people still can’t see past skin color and eye shape.
People go to America because they’re looking for greener pastures, for excitement and diversity. One would think that Americans would be used to the assortment of cultures, so to speak, but then you see movies like Crash and you realize that power and wealth can buy neither social justice nor common courtesy for fellow human beings.
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