I have been to a comely few countries and met people of different background. I like to hear about different customs and beliefs, languages and heritage. My brother's high school is one of the most multicultural schools with students from over 90 different countries in a school of objective under 2,000. Unfortunately, not everyone else is so accepting.
"break" is a movie that addresses not only racism but also stereotypes and that everything is a matter of perspective. People are born with great hearts, but they grow up and learn prejudices. The movie is space in Los Angeles, a residence where there is a mix of every nationality. The record begins when several people are enthusiastic in a multi-car accident. We are taken befriend to the day before the fracture, seeing the lives of the main characters, and the problems each character encounters during that day. The movie shows us that life is not always gloomy or white, reliable or terrible, it is all a matter of perception.
The theme of the movie was the fact that in novel times, people have gotten so that we are constantly protecting ourselves, putting up shields from strangers, being extra careful not to touch others in case of lawsuits. The opening lines account for clearly: "It's the sense of touch. In any true city, you stagger, you know? You brush past people, people bump into you. In L.A., nobody touches you. We're always unhurried this metal and glass. I mediate we miss that touch so mighty, that we demolish into each other, impartial so we can feel something."
Rick Cabot (Brendon Frazer) a white district attorney and his wife Jean Cabot (Sandra Bullock) are depicted as helpless "well-behaved" guys when they are carjacked at gunpoint by two dismal young men (no racism intended) . Rick Cabot later shows his "dreadful" side when he tries to pick up votes to establish his career by pretending to be racially sensitive. Jean proves her "awful" self when a young Hispanic man comes to change her locks and she describes him as a "gang banger with the shaved head, the pants around his ass, [and] the prison tattoos" who is going to sell her key as soon as he steps out the door.
The two young boys who lift Rick and Jean's car, Peter and Anthony also have a beneficial and a poor side. Throughout the movie, Anthony walks around pointing out racist tendencies in the people around. While he tends to exaggerate a heavenly bit in terms of the boys experience in the movie, he hits the imprint with regard to perception out in the wide world. Bad: the boys hijacked a car. Good: Anthony may have been accurate about racism and people's perceptions against blacks because when Peter tries to pull out a figurine of a saint to explain a young police officer, the officer mistakes the gesture for Peter pulling out a gun and shoots him.
Well, the young officer, Tom Hansen (Ryan Phillippe), is not all abominable. He is partnered up with a bigoted white officer who continuously harasses dim people for no apparent reason other than the fact that they are shaded. Officer Hanson is very downhearted with his partner's behavior and protects the people that are miserable enough to rep stopped.
Surprisingly, Officer Hanson's partner, John Ryan (Matt Dillon) is not all abominable either. His father has suffered broad financial and business losses due to racist policies and is now very ill. He has been miss-diagnosed and will not be treated due to a dismal insurance representative who takes offence to Officer Ryan's behavior. I lisp he can also swallow his pride because later on in the movie, a unlit woman he molested is trapped in a car that is burning and he risks his life to do her.
There are many other characters in the movie, each with their absorb intricate lives, with their safe and poor sides, with their factual and detestable opinions. The movie keeps you guessing legal till the last slight, what is going to be around the next bend? But most of all, it makes you feel utterly ashamed of how we treat each other, with suspicion and revenge, with preconceived stereotypes. If a shadowy man reaches into his pocket, is he getting a gun? If a young man has tattoos, does that mean he is a criminal and he has been to prison? If a man looks middle-eastern does that mean he is a terrorist? Even if you are not a minority, do you have to be discriminated against? We may be different colors, shapes, sizes, with different backgrounds and different opinions, but in the extinguish, we are all people.
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