John Singletons Higher Learning Analysis

Improved Essays
Aamirah Khatkhatay
11/9/15
PSYCH 150
Movie Analysis 2

John Singletons Higher Learning emphasizes many idealistic issues about the campus system through through a rare and eccentric view. The controversies bought up in the film are intended to represented the objective meaning of learning. It doesn’t just show the importance of education but, illustrates how society sees us, and how we see ourselves in terms of preconceived stereotypes, norms, and even discrimination. Singleton presents the character of Remy originally as a scared, white youngster who is at times singled out, but is mostly just finding himself in the darkness of the norms of being a regular college kid at Columbus University. Freud’s psychosexual stages relate immensely

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