STEP 1: WHY DO YOU THING CRASH IS THE TITLLE?
I think crash it's the title because the film is about, a lot of accidents to make in LA, in a short time. The film is about 8 diferent histories to happend in a given moment, and this histories are very complicated but in the finally I discovered that all the stories are conected.
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.
I think these words, talk about the L.A. city and they people. Like the people don't know
about other people because is a big city and the people knows about they problems and
they friends problams, no the problemos of all the city.
1.2.*How do you think the woman sitting right next to him (the driver) is going to respond to this?
No, I think she isn't going to responding him.
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
1.4.Graham goes to where his colleagues are working.
What have they found?
They found a shoe and a dead boddie
How does Graham react to that?
He dons't react but int he end he realise that he was his brother.
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. false
The locksmith didn’t replace the lock for a new one.
The store owner doesn’t understand English well enough. true
The locksmith cannot find a way to communicate effectively with the store owner. true
The locksmith has a friend who fixes doors; so, he wants to persuade the store owner to have his door fixed by this friend. false
The store owner has a door lock in his store that needs to be replaced. false
The store owner has a door in his store that needs to be replaced. true
The locksmith doesn’t want to be insulted any more. true
The locksmith leaves without getting any pay. true
The store owner believes he’s been cheated true
VOCABULARY:
depraved - depravat
degraded - degradat
loving - amorós
neighbor - veí
fear - por
insane - dement
coward - covard
enemy - enemic
bitter- amarg
harm - dany
guilty - culpable
grief - dolor
despair -desasperaco
afraid - espantat
STEP 3: WRITING A SUMMARY
Write down the characters' names
and the different stories in the film.
CHARACTERS:
1. Rick Caot and his wife Jean.
2. Los Angeles detective: Graham Waters and his partner Ria.
3. Farhad, a persian shop owner, and his daughter, Dorri.
4. Daniel Ruiz, and HIpanis locksmith and her daughter.
5. LADD officer John Ryan and hispartner Tom Hanson.
6. The cajackers called Anthony and Peter.
7. Cameron and Christine.
8. Chinese man and his wife.
Summaries:
- Graham and his partner Ria
-They are Graham, a detective who is black and Ria, his partner, who's white.
Graham
had some problems like racism problems with the people of his work. His
mother is ill because of the droughts and his brother is a carjacker.
Finally, his brother dies.
- Farhad and his daughter Dori
Farhad
is a gun's shop owner who has a daugher, Dori. Dori is working at his
gun's shop too. They have a problem with a locksmith and someday someone
destroys his shop. He thinks that it has been the locksmith and he
goes to kill him. Finally, he doesn't kill him.
- Daniel Ruiz and his daughter
Daniel
Ruiz is an hispanian locksmith who's the one who tried to repair
Farhad's door. He had a problem with Farhad and one day Farhad tried to
kill him. He almost kill his daughter of 5 years old. Finally everything
was allright.
- John Ryan and his partner Tom Hanson
John and
Tom are polices. One day, John violates a black girl, Christine,
touching her and Tom didn't want to do it. They separate and when the
husband of this woman, Cameron, had a problem Tom helped her and when
the woman had a problem John rescued her.
They are
a happy marriage and one day they have a problem with John and Tom, the
polices. Then their marriage is not as happier as before the problem
but they finally still love each other. They are 'brown' people.
- Carjackers Anthony and Peter
They are
both black. They rob a lot of cars including Rick Cabot and Jean's
car. One day they casualy rob Cameron's car, who's like them. They find
the police and one of them is Tom. Tom helps Cameron to scape and
finally all goes good. They also kill a chinese boy.
-Rick is
the district attormy and Jean his wife. They've been carjacked by
Anthony and Peter. They also have a racism problem and this makes Rick
reputation goes down, so hi decides to do somthing about it.
-He'd
been hitted by the carjacker's Anthony and Peter and they only drived
him at the door of the hospital. The hospital helped him and Anthony
robbed his truck. It was full of chinese people.
STEP 4: WRITE THE STORY
-Graham
is a detective from L.A. and Ria is his partner. His story begins with
an investigation about a racist crime. This crime was between a white
man, and a black one. The white killed the black but Graham thinks that
the black is guilty. As Rick had a problem with the black carjacker's
Anthony and Peter, he decides to make the white man feel guilty to make
people see that he is with the black people also. They made blackmail to
Graham to say that the black man is innocent including things of the
crime historial of his brother. He accepts the conditions and makes what
they say. After that, he wents to his mother house and thanks this we
know that she is between droughts. The only thing she asks for is about
Graham brother, saying that if he sees him, just tell him to go home.
Later, he descovers another crim and he realizes that his brother died.
