Project 2

For project two I and going to research ethical issues in the film Crash. This film, which debuted in 2004, explored many ethical issues in today’s world. The ethical issue explored most in this file is racial discrimination. “Crash tells interlocking stories of whites, blacks, Latinos, Koreans, Iranians, cops and criminals, the rich and the poor, the powerful and powerless, all defined in one way or another by racism. All are victims of it, and all are guilty it. Sometimes, yes, they rise above it, although it is never that simple. Their negative impulses may be instinctive, their positive impulses may be dangerous, and who knows what the other person is thinking?” Racism, in today’s world, is considered a very unethical or not the right thing to do. This ethical issue is presented very well in this movie. Every character is a victim of racism and also guilty of racism towards others. What makes this a good movie is all of the little side stories going on. The way the movie goes you think that it is about individual situations but in the end each character is brought together by one crash and everyone is affected by it. One of my favorite quotes from the movie is “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.” I think this a very awesome quote from the movie. It kind of sums everything up. I took part of it to mean, from an ethical point of view, that even though everyone is so different, Black, White, Hispanic, we all are connected somehow, even if it takes a crash to figure that out.