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Summary: Wish I could've liked it more. . .
Review: This could have been an excellent film, but it falls short by making some significant relationships one-dimensional. I'm mainly thinking of the 2 female roommate characters in the movie, (one white, one black) who could have demonstrated something other than the rather extreme, racially polarized aspects of race relations in college. These characters actually got along and found a way to live with eachother and even become friends despite the chaos around them.John Singleton, in trying to incoroporate every problem on college campuses today (date rape, drained financial resources) shortsights many of them. Instead, the movie principally becomes about Micheal Rappaport, and his journey from small-town insecure guy to violent racist. It's in this character that the movie is strongest. Rappaport's acting is suberb -- he captures Remy's insecurities and slide towards self-destruction wonderfully. In sum, this is worth catching, simply because it is one of the few movies to even try to capture racial unrest on college campuses.
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Summary: Well made film
Review: The characters are really nothing you haven't seen before in other movies, but in this movie, they work well together. The film shows the changes of 3 college freshmen during their first year away from home. The supporting cast around the 3 main players add great depth to the script. While I didn't go to college until after I had completed military service, the things I see in the film I see, to some extent, in the students I now go to class with. Great film.
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Summary: excellent analysis of all tensions that exist in America
Review: singleten has portrayed the major themes in this film text. he has dug in deep especially on the matters concerning racial and sexual tensions and insecurities. he also portrays in an excellent way, the matter concerning clas and status. one concerning the kirsty character, the typical vulnerable member of the middle class yet we also see the invunerable side to this class as well. the remy character is a typical picture of a working class member, not aware f what is happening around it also making him very vunerable and leading to him easily being dragged into this extremist group. malik is sure that the world owes him something and the fudge character is quite a strange character as he seems to play the bad man image yet also seems to be very well read and intelligent, he is supposedly "playing the game" as he says. singleton is trying to send a vital message out and this is that no society is perfect however much they make it out to be. there will always be these tensions around you. he also explores a deeper sense of confusion of sexuality. a perfect example is the kirsty character, as she is raped it seems this triggers inside her a confusion of what sexuality she likes and not. singleton i believe is illustrating how women are portrayed in the media to be the vunerable sex and are easily taken advantage of.
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Summary: Not very realistic...
Review: I must say that "Higher Learning" is a pretty decent movie and it is one that I don't mind seeing every once in a while, but, the way the university is portrayed is hideously unreal. Could a school really have that many issues? I think not. The film is worth seeing, I believe, but the situations in it should never be taken as [realistic] possiblilities. I haven't seen this movie in a very long time, but from what I can remember, it really was disturbingly unreal. It's not a horrible film, but it's no masterpiece.
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Summary: Singleton's Success
Review: Illuminating the struggle between two opposing ethnic groups, this film vividly portrays the harsh & putrid reality of racial bigotry. This film also successfully illustrates how someone can be drawn into a system of beliefs simply because they are seeking companionship & comradary. Singleton is a true success with this film, bringing to the audience a vision of another world that few see. This film deserves much credit, and should be priority viewing for everyone.
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Summary: A movie meant to polarize
Review: Where did John Singleton go to college? Is this how he saw it? A school filled with every stereotype, a school where the cops beat up an innocent black guy while letting an armed white guy escape after shooting up the campus? This movie is horribly bad. It isn't grounded in reality at all. Are there race problems in America? Absolutely. Does this movie contribute to the debate in a constructive way? Absolutely not. Don't waste your money or your time on this one.
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Summary: Question?
Review: What I want to ask is why black film makers make films that are racially charged? Granted Higher Learning is a good film but it could have been so much more. For my money Ice Cube is the only rapper who has made a decent transition to acting and he is quite good in this but please, does singleton have to put Busta Rhymes in this movie because there is no point to his character, all he does pepper ever sentence with the word 'white boy'. I may be wrong but I think poor Busta has been used as a marketing tool to sell this movie. If you believe what you see on the silver screen then america has some serious race problems...granted uk has a few race problems of its own, but it is nothing compared to the states. Higher learning is not singletons best film...in fact he only made one good movie [boyz 'n' the hood]...i hate to drone on but this is my first review...
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Summary: Excellent movie about race relations and college
Review: When Omar told that skin-head: "you're just a punk ... white boy with a [messed] up haircut." I thought that was classic!!!! The movie is worth watching just for that line..
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Summary: One of the best movies ever
Review: Singleton wasn't tring to put too many messages in one movie. he wasn't even trying to put any messages in it. all he wanted to do was open the eyes of america to the harsh reality of what is was and is like to be young in america, what nobody wanted to talk about, the racism, the sexism all the prejustice, the goods and bads of the american education system. those aren't messages they're realities. singleton didn't make the movie for you to think, just for you to see.
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Summary: Love it
Review: Omar Epps is becoming a household name in the acting community. Omar and Cuba Gooding are the future of young black actors. This movie deals with racism on a college campus, we all know racism is everywhere, but John Singleton reached out and showed us another side of it (a college campus!) Great movie that shows a famous quote from Malcolm X "the man has a way of making the criminal look like the victim and the victim looking like the criminal." Watch this movie and you'll see that quote come alive!
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