Well done, but too preachy.

Rating: 5/10 (14 November 2018)

Call me a cynic, but this is just more of the same from Hollywood. Stylistically, the film is impressive. But the conclusions drawn are all wrong!
PS- I could have done without the prison rape scene, and could have seen some more of Fairuka Balk sex scenes would have been nice!
Leftists always give you the same ad-hominem attacks... "These are people who think that time has passed them by...", or, "Racists do what they do because they are insecure"... bla bla bla!
I love the scene at the dinner table, where the guy who's the Jew dating the lead's mother says, "these are people that feel alienated by the system"....
Oh please, spare me!! The only thing that matters in this world, that matters to God, is the actions that you take!! Your own internal dialogue, as this character seems to be suggesting, is something that dominates our personality in the end, and there is no free will. But since not everyone acts on those impulses, the results of our actions are the only tangible things others can see!!
That being said, this movie is entirely believable, and the main character completely justified. This film seems to take the left-wing, communist path of "destroy the individual, by attacking his motivations and not his actions."
Communist liberals don't really care that there are dead bodies in the streets... they care about tearing down the concept of right and wrong... Case in point? Derek, the main character, becoming overly violent on the night in question that landed him in jail on murder charges. Ask yourself: would Derek have been a hero if he had simply shot the guy who broke into his truck, to leftists? No, he would not have been!! He would have been a hero if he had left the guy go and steal his truck. Why? Because, leftist communists are hypocrites, and believe in "one standard for those who help bring about the divide, and another for those who call for the same standards of behavior for all." Communists can only come to power when society is divided. Then, they sneak in and steal the country while people are looking to fight each other, and not them!! Hence, the real racists are on the left!!! What does all this mean? It means, you cannot put a guy like Derek through the loss of his father, constant harassment in life, and expect him to react as a pacifist. As it is, the film only serves, in my humble opinion, to further the divide. The real statement of this movie is: There is one standard of behavior for blacks and other minorities, and an entirely other standard for whites (which is to say: bend over and take it because we have had it too good for too long!)>>.....