Excellent despite the few flaws

Rating: Null/10 (6 October 1999)

This is one of the best movies about hate that I've ever seen. It's about how hate can arise in any social and cultural background, but especially among frustrated people, and how it can condemn people to isolation, loneliness and self-destruction.
The movie is excellent, and is enhanced by great acting; Norton and Furlong are simply extraordinary. The physical violence shown is not as important to the message as the violence which remains in pseudo-ideologies born from irrationality and aim for power and domination above the rest, all of which are portrayed as a result of the loss of hope and generosity.

But the best of all is, in my opinion, the final message, which is morally refreshing, even if I felt Derek's moral recovery was a little too idillic and unbelievable; I mean, it comes on through his friendship with a black man at jail. I don't believe things happen that way actually when someone's so fanatic. Anyway, the film is great.