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.