The characters themselves act as the different classes in the society mainly through their action and behaviour. The convenience store owner in the movie can be considered as lower class or proletariats. He is a man who is so used to being ignored and treated with such disrespect and prejudice that he can no longer feel and hear what is genuine. An American citizen, he pays taxes and is just as patriotic as a man who owns a gun store, yet is confronted daily based on his ethnicity. When the guy who repairs door and locks is being honest with him about the door he cannot comprehend an outsider being genuine and honest that he confused him with “cheaters”. It takes the blank bullet and the little girl for him to realize and refocus priorities. He recognizes this child as his angel, which is guiding him towards a better path and redemption.
A common theme that can be seen throughout the movie is exploitation and alienation. The guy who repairs doors and locks has always been a loyal and hard working person. In the movie the two people who get their locks fixed get him to do the job and after, they find fault with him. First when he fixed the lock at Sandra Bullock’s house she starts to shout at the guy saying that he would be the next person to break in to the house. This can be defined exploitation. And the result of exploitation is alienation.
The way people of various classes perceive individuals from other classes is different. One could come to the conclusion most aristocrats don’t have pity upon the Bourgeoisie and Proletariat classes. In the movie Sandra Bullock while walking down the road with her husband she sees the two black guys and because they were black she thought that they would want to kill someone or steal something. This explains how Aristocrats perceive the Proletariats as thieves and worthless, even though they actually stole the car there are some good peole out there in the world and if that kind of thinking is done then everyone who looks like the two guys would be called thieves.
The movie also points out a valuable lesson; that if people start treating each other irrespective of their classes, or how they look like society as a whole would succeed. When the black lady was about to be killed in the car, it was cop who came to save her, by assuring that she would be saved. This shows an unnatural form of unity among classes and races, because in the beginning the cop hated black people and would harass them.
In conclusion we could see that nearly all elements in Marxist theory could be seen in the movie, Crash. Such as the portrayal of different classes among the different characters, common elements of exploitations and alienation through out the movie, the views that individuals from a certain class has about the individuals in different classes and finally how if a classless society existed how everybody would succeed.
