Fighting Discrimination In The Film X-Men

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Throughout all the years of history discrimination has existed and over time it has been observed that the only way of fighting to stop this discrimination is by doing it peacefully. The director of X-men Two Bryan Singers portrays a serious message about fighting discrimination peacefully. He shows this in numerous scenes in the movie X-men Two when the mutants try to fight discrimination by violence and by hiding their true selves. These ultimately prolong the problem and make it worse for them which demonstrates Bryan Singers message, that the best and only way to fight discrimination is with peace.

Fighting discrimination with violence continues the problem and stereotype that the people who are discrimination against are violent and shouldn't be allowed in society. When wolverine is being discriminated against by the police he destroys police cars and kills police officers in front of a whole group of mortals. This only continues the
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Bryan Singer shows that this is the only way to fight discrimination and that with peace and patience slowly but surely discrimination will come to an end like in X men Two. This is seen at the end of the movie when The X-Men give the President Stryker's files, and Xavier warns him that humans and mutants must work together to achieve peace. It then turns into the ending of the movie where there is a sense of peace amongst everyone and a sense that the discrimination against mutants has stopped. A connection between this scene and when Gandhi fought discrimination in India and no matter what did it peacefully and ultimately succeed can be seen very clearly at this point. This scene also proved Bryan Singers ultimate message that to achieve peace as a society and to combat discrimination we must reach common ground with one another and work together but in complete

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