Battle Royal (The Fight Scene)

In Battle Royal a hopeful black man goes to a function to get his scholarship. During the function the completely humiliate him in many ways. The scenes were very symbolic. One that caught me in particular was the fight scene. In the fight scene the man is put to fight aganst this other guy in order to win some cash and keep the white men from beating them up. He and all the other guys in the ring were made to put on white blindfolds and fight each other. I believe this symbolizes how the white men were trying to blind them from the truth and keep them fighting each other to keep them down an reassure themselves that they are better than him. Another symbol in thefight scene was the big guy he was fighting. The big guy was beating him up when all he wanted to do was give his speech and show the white men how smart he was and that he wanted peace however the big guy was too afraid to let him do it. He would rather fight someone who was on his side than stand up to the enemy. I belive this represents how some black people turn a blind eye to the world and just accepts what white people tell them to avoid the pain of having to accept the truth.