base on the personal experience of director john singleton time at the university of southern california and come high learning . a film center on the racial politics that occur at modern day college . there be three main character to which the film base it foundation around for it story represent malik williams and an carefree lowbrow athlete who be an african american male . kristin conner and a sheltered soft white girl and and remy and a unsophisticated unconnected white male . all three be overcome by the sudden reality that college life be not as good a it be advertise a all three go through disappointment by be unprepared ( malik ) and by be naive ( kristin ) and and by be unwanted ( remy ) . one good thing about the film be that it do show that modern american college be just high school writ large . the college be not place to build character and develop potential and or enhance personal advancement and but they be institution use to gather all sort of student in a one size fit all atmosphere . it be an experience that usually be build for failure for most student . it would have be good if the film build it story about this travesty rather than racial politics . but it do not and that where the film fall apart . singleton and it seem and have a pretty bad experience at southern california . through this film he let it all hang out . there be no need to beat around the bush here . singleton let the hero and the villain of this piece be easily see . the black character in the film be pretty much see a the hero here while all the white in the film be see a the villain and save for kristin and who be rap by a fellow white student . who can understand the inconsistency of this film . black gang member who come to the aid of a white girl after she point out to them who supposedly rap her . the ease that the black gang member have at the university while a bunch of skin head meet in a dark small dorm planning violence . the performance of omar epps ( malik ) and kristy swanson ( kristin ) be disappoint . they do seem like the third choice for the role that they play in this movie ( tupac shakur and draw barrymore be suppose to play malik and kristin but be unavailable ) . oshea jackson aka ice cube and busta rhyme and and regina king be all irritate in their respective role . and laurence fishburne be woefully miscast here a the history professor . only michael rappaport do well in this film and he do consider that his character and of the three main character and change the most in the film . john singleton want to take on the matter of race and inequality in american college life with this film . and he do so quite badly . it be sort like kill a fly with a shotgun . life be far more complex than it seem and people be alike all over and he should know this . high learning be proof that he do not understand this at all . see the film and then and now and would only confuse and disappoint and enrage the same public he would wish to speak to . not to mention it would not entertain them in the slightest .