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Film studies People's lives cross with other people's every day. Strangers become a vital part of our lives, often in ways we don't ever recognize. Crash is an ensemble
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Conflict Resolution Studies (review of film Chocolat) Conflict Resolution Studies Take Home Exam ? "Chocolat" Introduction The character of choice when analyzing
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People's lives cross with other people's every day. Strangers become a vital part of our lives, often in ways we don't ever recognize. Crash is an ensemble piece about a circle of strangers whose lives all touch. Director Paul Haggis successfully conveys this through epiphanies that burrow deep into the truth about racism, and its manifestations. Haggis forces the audience to examine their own motives, raise questions, and scrutinize the ugly side of ourselves through heartbreak, tragedy, hope, and beauty. In scene 17, A Really Good Cloak, Haggis and Producer Don Cheadle carefully set the scene of a tragedy between strangers using fast cuts, slow motion, and extreme close-up reaction shots, all the while still conveying beauty through the use of sound.
Daniel (played by actor Michael Peña), a Hispanic locksmith, is a model citizen and a happily married father who recently moved his family to a better neighborhood to escape the brutal violence that caused a bullet to intrude into his daughter Lara's bedroom. A language barrier prevents Daniel from successfully explaining to Persian shop owner Farhad, played by actor Shaun Toub, that his doors need to be replaced, and the dispute soon leaves Farhad troubled as his store is subsequently broken into and destroyed. Farhad is a newly armed shopkeeper who understands English only as it suits him and is so convinced the world is ripping him off, that he often finds himself in threatening, and misleading circumstances that unknowingly have himself to blame for. Farhad loses everything in the larceny & holds locksmith Daniel accountable. With his newly bought firearm and a crave for retribution a tragic chain of events is set into motion as he waits for Daniel to arrive home from work.
The scene opens with a point of view shot through the eyes of an unknown character. Having a scene open with a POV shot really causes the audience to be a part of that scene. The shot is set up in a car and the POV is through...
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