i think that the film is good. There are a lot of
different themes we see as we progress through the film.
The obvious theme would be racial discrimination. However
not just racial discrimination, discrimination between
black, white, Chinese, Asian, etc. each group has
different �believes and values.� this will become clear
throughout my essay.

We see the contrast of racial discrimination at the very
beginning of the film even before we meet any of the
characters. The writing of the people who made and stared
in the film is in grey and white, and on a black
background, this is like the two opposite colours, the
main theme of the film.

The film follows a cross-section of students at fictional
Colombus University as they head down varied paths during
one semester. The central characters are Malik, a freshman
on a track scholarship; Kristen a naive freshman out of
Orange County, California; and Remy, also a freshman,
whose alienation leads him to join a group of Neo-Nazi
skinheads. Kristen's storyline, in which she is date raped
and turns to the consoling arms of Taryn a lesbian,
largely has little association with the linked, racially-
oriented ones of Malik and Remy, but by film's end all
three storylines converge in a dramatic fashion.

We see, though, all three main plot threads are
consistently linked in the sense they show how young
people strive to find their rightful niche in a
university, much like they try to find one in life in
general, sometimes going down the wrong path--as in the
case of Remy, whose adopted ideology of hate inevitably
leads to violence. But it is with the skinheads that Remy
finds a sense of belonging and purpose, something he
clearly lacks in the film's opening stages. Kristen
personifies young people's natural fascination with the
new and unexplored (in her case, lesbianism). Malik,
struggles to find a sense of direction in general, not
applying his best efforts on the track, in the classroom,
or anyone else, much to the chagrin of his girlfriend Deja
and his political science professor Mr. Phipps.

it is; the explosive conclusion, while undeniably
effective, bludgeons the audience with its message of
tolerance, racial and otherwise. The idea of racial
tolerance is obviously the more prominent in Singleton's
mind, and as such, Kristen's storyline is not as clearly
developed.