Crash the movie - comment

After seeing the movie, I was confused. Before seeing it, I thought that, as the title suggests, it would be a movie with a lot of accidents and many people would die.
However, it didn't happen that way. It talks about black and white cops, the relationship between white and black people, people who change for better or worse, racism and multiculturalism. In spite of contradicting my opinion about it, I liked it and it made me think about racism and about the prejudice I have against other races.
In the film, there are too many feelings, different points of view, wars between black and white society and differences between them. So, after seeing it, I changed my opinion about it. To my mind, there are a lot of differences between white people and other races. Our culture and their cultures aren't similar. I assume, as a white person, I am racist. I think that black people (the race refered to in the film) are very different from us. Maybe because their parents and grandparents have a different religion or something else. I don't know why but if a black girl wants to date me, I think I won't accept it. Besides, I think every body is racist because in spite of saying that it isn't true, everybody has, as little as it can be, a kind of prejudice inside them.
So, I can conclude that this movie helps people think about their, about how their feelings can affect/hurt other people, about the prejudice everybody has and about the personality we have.

Save The Last Dance - Quotes

We chose this quote:
"What is important is not where you come from but where you are going".
Bernie Rhodes

In our opinion, the place we come from doesn't matter because the education, intelligence, instruction and our culture don't have to do with the place but with ourselves. What we mean is that the place only contributes to our culture, instruction and intelligence. It does not influence our personality, it only helps us growing up ready to life and more instructed/educated.
So, the place we come from isn't important but the place we are going because it can help us develop and realize our dreams and objectives.

Work done by: Bruno, Margarida and Rodolfo.

Save The Last Dance:

I Have a Dream Speech

Martin Luther King, Jr. and Mahatma Gandhi

Mahatma Gandhi, was a major political and spiritual leader of India and the Indian independence movement. He was the pioneer of Satyagraha—a philosophy that is largely concerned with truth and 'resistance to evil through active, non-violent resistance'—which led India to independence and inspired movements for civil rights and freedom across the world. Gandhi is commonly known in India and across the world as the Mahatma and as Bapu. In India, he is officially accorded the honour of Father of the Nation. 2 October, his birthday, is commemorated each year as Gandhi Jayanti, a national holiday. On 15 June 2007, the United Nations General Assembly unanimously adopted a resolution declaring 2 October to be the "International Day of Non-Violence."

Martin Luther King, Jr. was one of the pivotal leaders of the American civil rights movement. King was a Baptist minister, one of the few leadership roles available to black men at the time. He became a civil rights activist early in his career. He led the Montgomery Bus Boycott (1955–1956) and helped found the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (1957), serving as its first president. His efforts led to the 1963 March on Washington, where King delivered his “I Have a Dream” speech. Here he raised public consciousness of the civil rights movement and established himself as one of the greatest orators in U.S. history. In 1964, King became the youngest person to receive the Nobel Peace Prize for his efforts to end segregation and racial discrimination through civil disobedience and other non-violent means.
King was assassinated on April 4, 1968, in Memphis, Tennessee. He was posthumously awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by President Jimmy Carter in 1977. Martin Luther King, Jr. Day was established as a national holiday in the United States in 1986. In 2004, King was posthumously awarded a Congressional Gold Medal.

It's a Multicultural World - Crash film trailers

A film not to be missed! Reality hurts, sometimes it really crashes you...
Segregation, xenophobia, racism,love, hate, prejudice, violence,crime,hardships and sweetness,the smile of a child, her bright eyes,her powerful imagination, all at the same time. People change, as a matter of fact. Sometimes for the better, sometimes not. I certainly did and this film made me see the world with different eyes. And unfortunately innocent people keep dying for no reason, in the name of God and power.

Quotes by Charlie Chaplin

Laughter is the tonic, the relief, the surcease for pain.
Charlie Chaplin

A day without laughter is a day wasted.
Charlie Chaplin

A man's true character comes out when he's drunk.
Charlie Chaplin