Violence And Violence In The Film Crash

President Franklin Roosevelt once said, “The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.” There is a correlation, or connection, between violence and fear. “Crash” is an award winning movie that shows a series of violent crimes. The 2004 film exemplifies deviance from several different perspectives. Although “Crash” is not a true story, it represents much of the violence in America and people’s fearful response to violent crimes. Crash accurately depicts crime and violence in the contemporary American society. In one scene, a husband and wife are walking to their car down a city sidewalk. Two black men are walking along the same sidewalk discussing possible racial discrimination that they may have endured at a restaurant. As the two black men began to cross paths with the white couple, the wife grips her husband for …show more content…
Films like Crash show different forms of violent crimes. The violence displayed in the film may become part of the experiences that form one’s social construction of reality, that is the way people make sense of life by applying meaning to their experiences. As we saw in the Keeping Up with the Trumps article, television has an influence on society. The article discussed the effects of television on spending money, but the same thought can be applied to violence. If people observe realistic examples of violence on the television, they may become fearful of the same occurrences happening in their own reality. The more people see the acts of violence such as crimes committed between police and the black population and crimes committed between black citizens and white citizens, the more the issue of race and corrupt authority become a social problem. Since in fact, a social problem is an objection condition to which people have subjective concerns. An objective condition is an aspect of society that can be measured, whereas a subjective concern is the way people feel about an objective condition (Henslin