Examples Of Duality In The Movie Crash

In the film Crash, the author deposited a lot of scenes with a lot of racial tensions. He approached the duality of Light vs. Dark. The Light vs. Dark came with two perspectives; Light skin vs. Dark skin and Light energy vs. Dark energy. He uses the duality approach to argue how society is like a melting pot, that everyone cares and does for themselves. Society lacks this touch that connects us back to humanity, knowing we’re all human.

Many of the scenes featured someone white mistreating a person of color. For example, in the scene where there was a black couple and they were pulled over by authority and once the cops noticed the civilians were black, we see how the white cops have abused their power. They degraded and berated both the man and woman. One of the cops violated and molested the wife knowing that neither of them could do anything because he was armed. These chosen scenes demonstrate every aspect of these dualities. After the molestation of the wife by cop they argued at home because the wife explained how it hurt to see the police take his dignity away to protect her. He was emasculated in the moment He responded by saying “What was I supposed to do ? They had guns”. That statement he made showed he felt deprived and emasculated by the cop. …show more content…
Humanity is like an ocean , if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty”. In other words, just because one does wrong doesn’t mean all are wrong. For example , in this particular scene, the rookie cop pulled over the black husband and when he asked the suspect to get out of the car; it was the guy who’s wife was molested the other night. In that moment the cop ask his partners to “back off , relax “ , explaining how he knows the black guy. He continued on doing what most authorities won’t do and should do ; asked his partners to let the man off with a