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Conflicts Between Colors

The idea behind the movie Crash is quite simply, diversity.   The film immediately dives deep into race related issues and leaves the audience itching for more viewpoints.   The film does a beautiful job of tying everyday people and how diversity affects them together through a series of interrelated short stories.   The scriptwriter intends to relate these stories to the lives of the audience, which are everyday people.   The overall goal, overcoming challenging themes and scenes of discrimination, is what hopefully gives the viewer a new perspective and outlook on life.
Before the actual purpose behind this film can be derived the intended audience must first be clarified.   When scripting a movie based upon people and their differences it can immediately be seen as intended for most anyone.   This film was made to speak to all genders, races, and age groups.   There may be a few exceptions to this generalization such as young children, but for the purpose of this paper they do not need to be included.
With that said, the actual purpose of this film, for the viewer, is to derive a personal response to his or her own feelings on racism and discrimination.   There are many examples of borderline discrimination shown in this movie.   One specifically is brought to the audience’s attention in the scene where the black man, Ken Ho, and his wife are pulled over by officers John Ryan and Tommy Hanson.   The actions taken by John Ryan could be classified as discriminatory, but at the same time there is no immediate proof that this was the case.   To clarify somewhat, all cases in this film can be considered discrimination. The scriptwriter distinctively wants the audience to believe this is discrimination because it is one of the first evidential scenes that floods the viewer’s mind with thoughts of race and conflict.   This is a necessary part of the film because without this, all of the racial conflicts later in the movie would have little or no meaning.   The scriptwriter...