Monday, October 1, 2007

'Crash'

The movie that I thought had marx ideas in it was 'Crash'. This movie is based on a recopilation of an example of what lifeis for many different people in different social classes. It touches on many aspects of life, from slavery to being wealthy. It is just as Gramci, would name the intellectuals, meaning that there were the "traditional", these where the wealthy, who had professional responsibilities, who had the role of' hierarchy', they where the ones who had the power and dominance over the rest social classes. There was the other social class who where as Gramci would state "organic", these where anyone who will work at any job that was suitable in their class. They played the role of the "proletariat", who where the working class, in this movie resembling the workers in the house of the wealthy people. In this movie we could see many examples of discrimination, racism, and many injustices. But it all relates of what Althusser shows in his essay 'Ideology and Ideological State Apparatuses', that "There must in a practical way hail or interpellate individuals as subjects, so that they perceive themselves as such, with rights and duties, the obligatory accompaniments". That all each person plays there own role in life, and that eventhough they may not be aware off, but are designated by their social class in which they live in.
There is a scene in this movie where there is an example of what marx would use as 'Hierarchy' vs the 'Proletariat', in where the wealthy people discriminate the working people in this case, the 'key maker'(lock-smith) who was in charge of changing the lock after there was a break-in on the house, the women in the wealthy couple would discriminate the locksmith by telling her husband that he might keep a set of keys and give it to his friends, in this case judging them as 'thieves', where as the only thing the worker was doing is trying to get the work done in order to get paid and returning to his everyday life. Another scene of similar results where was the same locksith changed the lock on a store where the owner would not want him to finish his job completely, and as a consequence there was a break-in, and the store owner lost everything and blamed the locksmth, where he later tried to kill. In thae scene od the store owner trying to kill the locksmth, I thought that this was an example of Marx ideology, it was after the store owner shot the girl who stood in front of his dad's arms as a way of protecting him, as thinking she had an invisible cloth, that his dad told her earlier that could be bullet proof. The store owner saw this as an ideology that the girl had been his angel that would make everything get better, and the desperate father after thinking he had lost his daughter saw the ideology of the moment as a miracle that she was alive after reseaving a shot, but it all at the end was due to the fact that luckily, the owner's daughter after buying the gun, also bought 'blanks' for the gun not knpwing they wheren't real bullets, and also the store owner not knowing it was blanks that he load on the gun that was the thing that made him not kill the girl. There was at the end the scene where in a van there where many people locked and chained, resembling slaves who where going to be sold in order to exploid them, but where later let free in order to find a better life on a new country. In the end, there is a Marx example in every type of lifestyle, in the example of social classes, to the example of discrimination that is still and will be a problem in everyday life.

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