The Struggle is Real

    If ever there was a movie that could capture my attention so much that I don't speak for the whole duration of the film Crash is that movie. From the first time I watched it in my high school Sociology class I was amazed. At first I was skeptical because I thought it was one of those movies that make you cry and I hate those...but since it was an in class movie I had to watch it. Turns out it was one of the best movies I had ever seen. The way each person is connected in one way or another; a type of 6 degrees of separation, was what really made me think. This world isn't so large after all and everyone has their own struggles.

    Struggles. That was the main thing I got from that movie. I used to only think that only minorities had struggles, and when I say minorities I thought only in terms of black or Latino. For whatever reason I only thought that that was how far the struggle went. It wasn't until we watched this movie that I realized that after we break down race, there is the actual ethnicity of each person that brings the most struggle. The store owner's shop didn't get vandalized because of him it was because of his ethnicity; the black couple were harassed because they were black. Race and ethnicity play into this movie and perfectly depict how it is to live in modern day America; especially in Los Angeles California, one of the most integrated cities in the U.S. In all three readings for this class we read the many different ethnicites that have issues and their long histories, the social standings of ethnicites, and the problems that came with that and even the covert ways that racism still exists. I believe that everything we learned in this class- aside from the history of ethnic relations in other counties- can be summed up in this movie.


    One takeaway that anyone can get from this movie is that no matter what one's social, racial, or ethnic standing in life, everyone has a personal struggle and we will never be united if we break others down for our own selfish reasons.