The award winning 2004 drama filled film, Crash, was directed, produced and co-produced by Paul Higgins. It brings to the screen the all too real different situations of life that many people go through. It reveals the assumptions made about certian "types" of people and it harshly paints a picture of what the world today has succumbed to. The movie Crash, has many different depictions of racial sterotypes and slurs, as well as many of todays modern social outlooks on different economic class ranks, gender and racial background, through the lives of different people in completely different statuses.
This film is compacted with controversal turmoil and the bitter truth of racial cliches.
Creative techniques that were incorporated into this film was the constant feeling of suspense. It kept a rigid edge on the film, that gave off an aura of anxiety towards the characters and their situations. The film was vigilant in portraying high and tense emotions and their decisions and outlooks.
Never a dull or slow moment in Crash, it was persistent on its general message of the harsh realities of life, and the ugly shamful veil of racism. It establishes different economic classes and lower classes along with the sterotypes of each. Different views are being presented and the different routines that people have according to their "rank" in society.
Overall the general message that is clearly portrayed in the film is the rarely talked about, quiet issue of racism in todays society. We must learn as a whole that we have a long way to change and progress in how we percieve people because of the color of ones skins, the amount of money in their bank account, or their beliefs and traditions. We must learn to be able to look past the surface to actually understand one another. Our society has become blind and oblivious when it comes to the matter of people who are different from us. We have become too quick to judge others.
Now, many people judge others at the drop of a hat, and it must not be so. God has taught us to love one another and accept all others as brothers and sisters with open arms. We must community and love and compassion for one another, something that this modern generation greatly lacks. Everyone is equal, no one is above or below each other, regardless of our backrounds or our past decisions.
-Carolina Rodriguez

Carolina Rodriguez

The animation film Wall-E was released in 2008 and was a Disney and Pixar Film, directed and writen by Andrew Stanton and Jim Reardon. Co-producers to the film were
also Lindsey Collins with exectuive producer, John Lassester. Some of the creative techniques used in this film were the use of the two robots to contain so much symbolism and meaning. The idea of a childrens Disney movie to captivate and be held accountable of the underlying messages is so simple and yet so intriguing. The cliche of a kids story is executed when this movie came to the screen. The character Wall-E is such a curious and little piece that brings something completely different and attractable to the screen. As most in general would agree is it an adorable comedy that can be enjoyed for all ages; this movie holds many symbols and deeper meanings.For many, this movie was simply a child's film, however when reviewed, it paints a frightening picture of how our world is slowly falling all around us. It raised the issue the of the destruction of earth, with all the waste that is produced from our society; humans. Also, a comical face on that fact that humans in the future were obese and virtually against doing any sort of pyhical movement, it raised the matter of the human body and and the toxic habits that this modern society has succumed to.This film depicts points such as the damaging effects that humans have on their environment and the planet. It displays our cold and mechanical like, life we have created for ourselves and continue to create. Our daily hustle and bustle lifestyles leave no room for community, nor awareness of our surroundings. Technology will take over, and
interactions with each other will be non existant.This film was created in the efforts to bring sensible reason back into our lives. The path that our world currently takes is a downward spiral. The live we lead has no purpose and are so self indugent upon themselves. We lack community, friendship, and love.We must learn to change our habits and lifestyles to preserve mother earth. Spirituality, Wall-E has it moments when ideas of God are surmissed. The idea that Eve came to Wall-E to be his companion was be infered that relates to the idea of how
Wall-E found "love." Which brings us to the idea that God in ever present and ominous, and when love is felt, you are also feeling love, because God is love. On the path to finding God, there may be trials and obstacles, however, he is always there for you. There is unity and clarity and peace. The idea that Eve tries to push Wall-E, ties in with the idea that many us, too oblivious tothe matter, push God away, or become distant and out of sight with him, God is there looking for you. He does not stop on his road to finding his "lost sheep."