Film Analysis: The Color Of Fear

There are many films available today that examines race, ethnic, and color relations within the United States. The Color of Fear, presented a focus group of men representing multicultural and an open ended discussion of racial issues in the United States. The participants were adults who have already spent their lives experiencing race relations in America. When I saw the participants from various racial and ethnic backgrounds together in the discussion, it was an eye opening moment for me. Because it is very hard to communicate with an individual, who speaks against or negatively about your race.

Another impressive thing took my attention, throughout the sharing process, participants developed a level of trust that allowed them to be honest, open with one another, and respected each other point of view. Few influential words mentioned by the participants include “being invisible”, “disregarded”, “ignored, holding oneself back from progress being a color person”, and “white holding the ground”. The significant point I noticed in the film, people have become more accepting of the fact that racism is

It was an effective film to show that clarifying goals of therapy are another way to provide effective counseling rather than giving advice and solving the clients’ problems. Specially working with a minority group client, I always try to be prepared, learn about my client culture, background, values, beliefs, create a plan, make sure my client doesn’t not feel overwhelmed or discouraged by any of my statements, frame the issue in a personal context, and allow a moment of silence for the emotions to come out. In general, the counseling profession must develop multicultural competencies in order to successfully work with clients from diverse