Intercultural lessons from the movie crash
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After the academy awards one fine morning a sudden thought clicked on me: “What do movies do most excellent?” Do they assist us recognize the confronts others face? Do they educate us about other cultures and varied backgrounds, or do they just craft us sense fine?  When all the mentioned answers are true then consider this:  these movies allows us to work out our own expressive issues through the actions of the characters on panel.

The movie CRASH won the best film award since it did the work it had to do. It created a lot of uncomfortable feeling in the people and  also evoked memories of discrimination experiences. But with this the work is not over. Once we watch the movie we have to take action and expand its understanding. What do we do with comatose fears and tacit chauvinisms the movie exposed? If we don’t find them, appreciate them and deal with them, we end up repeating actions that creates cross-cultural misunderstandings.
Behaviors with fear pop out when we least suspect it as we experience ageism, racism, homophob-ism wealth-ism, or several number of “isms” and can’t accept as true it’s happening to us, within of us, around us, or most horrible case that it’s actually carried out by us, even today.
Kenneth Turan, a film detractor for the LA Times, puts forward that CRASH is a “feel-good movie about racism. A film that could make you deem that you had done your moral duty and examined your soul apart from the fact that you were just getting your buttons pushed.” He used this as a motive that “liberal” Academy voters chose CRASH over BROKEBACK MOUNTAIN for the Best Picture Academy Award.
The fact is that both the movies made people much uncomfortable. Many of the people asked, “What’s wrong with a little button pushing if it pushes people out of their soothe zones and into change?” now the next job which is to be performed is that we have to bridge the understandings and learning that we gathered from the movie CRASH and apply them as such to our life and our businesses or the movie’s task has been worn out and we will bear out Kenneth Turan’s cynical view to be precise.
Just bow your heads and value the things to identify that drives scrupulous behaviors. Continue this for a certain days and scribble down what you think and what makes you the most disturbed. Later think about the  person who influenced you the most and what made you think so. Once you get an answer for this you can go back to the source from where the thought originated and then change it feeling and behaving. Make this an exercise for the rest of your life so that you can save your life in future from CRASHING.

 


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