American History X

I recently saw a movie named ‘American History X’,which is a very good movie relating to the serious issue went on in 1980s and 1990s America . Nazism is topic discussed .Edward Norton(Derek Vinyard) Played a part of a Neo-Nazi .His Character potrays how he was dragged into the underground group when his father(Russ),a firefighter was killed by the black who was the drug dealer while fighting fire.The story revolves around a family on which his brother Danny is influenced by Derek after a dinnertime discussion which is very important in this movie and Danny launches his racist diatribe. That night, three black men park in front of the Vinyard house and break into Derek's car. His younger brother, Danny, hears them and informs Derek, telling him that a black man was stealing his car. Derek shoots one of the men, killing him, and wounds a second. The third escapes in their car. Derek kills the wounded man by ordering him to place his mouth on the curb and then stomps on the back of his head.

While Danny Was very much influenced by this and starts to write a paper on this issue. Derek is sentenced to three years in prison, charged with voluntary manslaughter.During this imprisonment he seeks a Aryan brotherhood for shelter.His white supremacist angry with his actions gang rape him. Derek makes the acquaintance of a black inmate named Lamont. Although he originally scorns Lamont, he gradually warms to him and after being raped, he sees that Lamont is his only friend and abandons the gang.Then Derek will be realesed on a payrole due to the former honor of his English Teacher Sweeney. The confession seems to prompt a change in Danny. They walk home and begin to change their ways, ripping down all their Neo-nazi posters and regalia on the bedroom wall. After showering, Derek looks at the Swastika on his chest, and puts a hand over it, showing how he has indeed changed. The next morning, Danny walks into his high school bathroom with his report on his brother, and is fatally shot several times in the chest. The gunman, a black youth, was previously involved in an altercation with Danny, when Danny stood up for a young white male being harassed by the black youth. Derek runs in and embraces his brother's body, crying uncontrollably. The film ends with shots of the beach at sunset, and Danny reciting the last lines of his essay he was going to turn in, a quote originally said by Abraham Lincoln.

It was a touching movie which had violence mixed with sentiments with all the happenings in America. Controversy developed over the film when director Tony Kaye attempted to remove his name from the credits, preferring to use the pseudonym Will Bryan the man who really wrote the film. The film is also controversial for it's violence and vulgarity.Do Watch the movie.The acting of Edward Norton is too good.