Implicit Bias In The Movie Crash

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"Crash" Is A Movie That Taught a Lesson Before the Lesson Was Known. In the 2004 Paul Haggis-directed film Crash, a movie fundamentally about race and the effects it has on a group of people in Los Angeles over a relatively short time span. The movie earned great reviews from average viewers, great reviews from some professional critics and won an Oscar. It seems a surface level attempt to enforce the fact that racism is bad, This that also earned the film some small amount of criticism for being so blatant in its approach. It seems that most critics missed one of the deepest truth in the film, it seems that truth that has played out time and again recently.
The film most assuredly does earn the title “Crash;” It moves at a steady, intense …show more content…
This movie, out in 2004, exemplifies the growing understanding of explicit bias and Implicit Bias covered in a recent White House Report, “Explicit bias is accessible – it can be measured with straightforward questions in surveys…It can also be combated with logic and discussion because it is acknowledged by the person expressing the bias. Implicit bias, in contrast, is activated automatically and unintentionally, functioning primarily outside of a person’s conscious awareness.” (Handelsman and Sakraney, "Implicit Bias" 1) At the end of the movie, a protagonist Officer Tom Hansen, played by Ryan Phillippe, who that has stood up to his partner's bigotry and saved the life of a wronged black man earlier that night, wrongfully shoots another protagonist Peter Waters. Nervous because his black passenger is also nervous, he shoots Peter as Peter is trying to show him something they have in common, a St. Christopher statue. As states, “Haggis is telling parables, in which the characters learn the lessons they have earned by their behavior.” (Ebert, "Crash Movie Review and Film
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