�Moving at the speed of light, we are bound to crash into each other� (Crash).

Race is something that is extremely relevant today. The film �Crash� does an excellent job in depicting racial struggle and racism.

One of the prominent racial conflicts in the film is between a Mexican American family and an Iraqi American family. The Iraqi man owns a convenience store and buys a gun with his daughter because his store got broken into. When going to buy the gun, the man and his daughter go through conflict with the gun shop owner because the owner is making racist comments. The man gets taken out of the store by security and the daughter buys the gun and grabs a random box of ammunition. The Mexican American family has just moved to a new neighborhood because their house got shot at through gang related activity, resulting in a bullet flying through the window of his five year old daughter's bedroom. The two men meet because the Mexican American father is a locksmith and the Iraqi man is having the locks changed at his store. The Mexican American father goes to the store, changes the lock, but realizes that the reason the store got broken into wasn't because of a faulty lock, it was because the door is broken. He tells this to the Iraqi store owner who then starts yelling at the Mexican American father, saying that he is trying to cheat him. The Mexican American stays as patient as he can but then he too starts yelling, trying to defend himself. He leaves the store enraged, not making the Iraqi store owner pay for his services. The Iraqi man then goes to the Mexican American's house and waits for him to come home. When the Mexican American father comes home, the Iraqi man gets out of his car and pulls out the gun that he had bought earlier with his daughter. The two men get into a verbal fight and then you see the Mexican American's five year old daughter come to the door of the house. She then proceeds to run out to her father because earlier her father gave her an `invisible cape' to wear to protect her from bullets- he obviously did this to help calm his young child down from the trauma of having a bullet go through her window. She jumps into her fathers arms as the Iraqi store owner's gun goes off, pointed at the man. The father screams and it is clear that there is no way that the young girl could have avoided getting shot. Shock comes to the screen when the young girl whispers into her father's ear �don't worry daddy, I'll protect you�. Astounded, the father looks over his daughter, the Iraqi man frozen in fear, and sees that she has no blood on her, no wound at all. They run into the house while the Iraqi man just stands there. We then see that the random box of ammunition that the daughter bought at the gun store was a box of blanks.
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Another prominent relationship in the film is between two police officers and a wealthy African American couple. The police officers pull over the couple while searching for a car that has been stolen- even though they know that this is not the car they are looking for because the plates don't match. One of the cops is racist and one is not. They pull over the African American couple and make them step out of the car, the racist cop saying he thinks that they might have been drinking. The racist cop starts patting down the African American woman, molesting her. The cop that is not racist has a look of disbelief on his face, no knowing what to do. The racist cop then says that he is going to let them off the hook this time with just a warning. The African American husband thanks him and gets back into the car with his shocked wife. This situation not only causes tension between the racist and non racist cop, and also the couple because the wife felt her husband was not sticking up for her.

This clip is what happens at the end of the film, following the above situation.
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