A powerful and the most riveting film ever made with an excellent performance of Edward Norton

Rating: Null/10 (2 May 2004)

American History X is the most powerful film I have ever seen. This movie was just a deserving film. The performance of Edward Norton was so amazing. It's definitely the best performance of his career. His character shows a life of a Nazi men that believes whites are better and all these things about other races.
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Edward Norton scares me in such a deep character with so much hate, racism, and so much problems in his life. It's amazing how the scenes are black and white when they show his brutal past. When his jail is shows how much he's been through in his life.
The movie has many disturbing scenes. One of them is when Edward grabs the African-American guy, puts his mouth in the sidewalk, and just steps on him really hard on the back of his head and leaves him there. But the cops come, but still very disturbing. The other brutal scene when Edward was in the shower and all those guys rape him for a stupid reason, talking to a African-American guy, what a reason. How they rape him is so crucial, it was uncalled for, but the nudity scene in the bathroom was really funny, I wonder how much they got paid to show their penis. The other disturbing scene was when Edward's little brother got shot in the bathroom, that was so sad and crucial. I am sure it was unexpected by everyone who saw this movie, well for me it was.
There's many more scenes but those are some. The guy he works with the towels in jail was hilarious, he was the only guy i actually thought he was the nicest.
The movie was outstanding and shows a life of hate and racism. The movie is powerful and Edward Norton surely deserved that Oscar nomination good for him. But the only scene that messed him up was the end, when he was crying. He tried to hard and he did it all wrong, in my opinion. I think that's why it lost him some points in the Oscar race for best actor. I'm sure he will get one later, but for now, he'll try his best
4.5 out of 5 stars. I truly recommended if you want to watch movies of life of a racist man changed into a real respectful man