Monika Kolodziej March 30, 2008 The movie Crash is about racial tension, prejudice and the stereotypes that ensue. Anthony is an African American car thief. He is an ironic character because for a car thief he has his limits. Anthony will never steal from another African American person. He always thinks that white people are oppressing and stereotyping African American people, which ironically is a form stereotyping itself. When we first see Anthony he is leaving a restaurant, complaining about the poor service. He scrutinizes peoples every action. For example Sandra Bullock’s character feels a chill and draws in closer to her husband as they pass Anthony and his friend. Anthony immediately thinks that she made this movement in fear of him because he’s a black man. He continues on, saying that they are in the most lit part of town, surrounded by white people, therefore they should be the ones in fear; then proceeds to highjack the white woman and her husband. Anthony also thinks that buses have windows to show all the minorities who ride public transportation…to humiliate them. This scene foreshadows the last scene of the movie, where Anthony must ride the bus, at which point he learns “his lesson.” In the beginning Anthony is perceived as the bigot and never the victim. We find out his father is very sick, and he feels that an African American HMO clerk is racially discriminating against his father and denying him effective medical treatment. He later redeems himself when he’s forced to put those feelings aside to save Christine--the same woman that he sexually harassed during the search--in a terrible traffic accident. At first, naturally, in a panic she refuses to be touched by him. But she realizes he truly wants to help and her life depended on it. She puts her trust in him. He pulls her from the wreckage, saving her life and she cries on his shoulder. And just like Anthony, Officer Ryan is portrayed as a bigot. Jean Cabot is a socialite. She’s a...