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Analyzing Interpersonal Relationships In The Movie 'Crash'

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1-How are interpersonal relationships portrayed? Positive/Negative. Interpersonal relationships were in majority negative. The movie portrayed different personality from different ethnic and racial group turning in conflict circles. The interaction was in the majority of time negative characterized with insult exchange, prejudice, mistrust, racism, high tension, ignorance, negligence of others’ feelings, egocentrism etc... Example1: Farhad the Persian men and the gun seller. Example2: The Asian women in the first scene with the detective women after the car crash Example 3: The relationship between the detective and the social worker. However, some interpersonal relationships were positive, especially family relationship, like the relationship between the Hispanic men and his little daughter where communication was success full and the relationship was full of love. The same for the relationship between the Persian men and his daughter. …show more content…

How do characters’ deal with conflict? Characters in the movie deal negatively with conflict. The majority of characters didn’t have any strategies to deal with conflict. They were making conflict more complicated. The majority of characters had so many barriers between each other to the point that they couldn’t solve any conflict. Their attitude full of fear, prejudice, premature judgment and anger leads to more conflict, and to so many “Crash “. Example1: the conflict between the gun seller and the Iranian men, full of prejudice the gun seller called the Iranian men “Osama”, what leads to a negative and aggressive reaction from the Iranian who argued that he is an

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