Crash

A Brentwood housewife and her DA husband. A Persian store owner. Two police detectives who are also lovers. An African-American TV director and his wife. A Mexican locksmith. Two carjackers. A rookie cop. A middle-aged Korean couple...

They all live in LA. and during the next 36 hours, 
they will all collide.

STEP 1: THE TITLE: CRASH

The introductory monologue pretty much summarizes most of what happens in this movie.  People in L:A: move back and forth in their cars, without any kind of human contact.  They need to collide in order to make that necessary human contact everybody needs.

Why do you thing the title is crash?

Crash is a provocative treatise on racism woven together with a series of overlapping threads. Talk about the different thinks, and everything have a double meaning. At the final of the film you see that the topics are related and finally all do a CRASH.

Crash mean an accident or a smash.

STEP 2: THE OPENING MONOLOGUE

1. (2.51 – 5.54) Read the opening monologue.

Graham has just crashed.  The car is now stopped.  This is what he says:

“It's the sense of touch. Any real city, you walk, you know?, you brush past people. People bump

 into

 you.

In L.A., nobody touches you.  We're always behind this metal and glass.

I think we miss that touch so much that we crash into each other just so that we can feel

 something.”

1.1.*Discuss the meaning of these words.  

Graham says that the people in L.A. only crash and they don't touch, and we miss that touch.

1.2.*How do you think the woman sitting right next to him (the driver) is going to 

respond to this?

She don't give importance to what he says.

1.3.The woman sitting next to Graham leaves the car and goes to where the police 

officer and the other driver are.  What kind of problem do you perceive in the 

conversation you hear?  Choose one and explain.

-       an age gap problem

-       a racial issue

-       tension due to unsolved problems these two women had before

Is a racial issue because one woman is black and she thinks that the other one is racist and 

she 

crash with her because it.

1.4.Graham goes to where his colleagues are working.  What have they found?  

How does Graham react to that?

 They found a shoe. Graham got nervous.

2. (35:01- 36:48) Check the problems these two men are having:

The locksmith doesn’t know how to do his job. False

The locksmith wants to overcharge for his job. True

The locksmith didn’t replace the lock for a new one. True

The store owner doesn’t understand English well enough. False

The locksmith cannot find a way to communicate effectively with the store owner. False

The locksmith has a friend who fixes doors; so, he wants to persuade the store owner to have his door fixed by this friend.True

The store owner has a door lock in his store that needs to be replaced.True

The store owner has a door in his store that needs to be replaced.False

The locksmith doesn’t want to be insulted any more. False

The locksmith leaves without getting any pay. True

The store owner believes he’s been cheated. False

STEP 3: WRITING A SUMMARY

Write down the characters' names

and the different stories in the film.

1.- Graham Waters and Ria. They're detectives, and they're investigation a crime.

2.-Dome and Farhad. They have a shop and they buy a gun.

3.- Anthony and Peter. They are Carjackers. 

4.- Daniel Ruiz. He's in a locksmith and has got a doughter.

5.- John Ryan and Tom Handsom. They're policeman and they save Chrsitine.

6.- Rick Cabot and Jean. Anthony and Peter stole their car.

7.- Cameron and Christine. They're a black partner.

8.- Chinese man. The carjackers run over him.   

Rick and Jean(his wife)

STEP 4: WRITING THE  STORY

You'll have 1 of the stories.

Rick and Jean(His wife)

Write a summary of the story.

The local District Attorney Rick Cabot, and his wife Jean are carjacked as they are about to enter Their Lincoln Navigator by Anthony and Peter. Later, at the Cabot house, Hispanic Their Locksmith Daniel Ruiz is changing locks when I overhears Jean complaining about having earlier been carjacked by two black men and now having to endure a heavily tattooed Hispanic with a shaved head lock She believes Their follow the changing up at home. There fore does change the locks on the doors of their house

Describe the characters in the story:

How do they look like?

Like serious

describe them using adjectives like: naïve, responsible, ambitious...

What's the relationship between them?

They are married

How do they feel at the beginning?

Happy

How do they react in the story?

Very sad, because they are carjacked

Do they change? Why? Why not?

yes, becouse the problem affects

STEP 5: CHARACTER DESCRIPTION

Choose one character you like

Describe this character 

physical description

personality

evolution in the story.