Human. Nothing else.

Rating: 9/10 (7 September 1999)

My first glance at the movie were those black and white trailers.
Now I see, those contrasts usefully display the difference between races on the flashbacks. But them, at the same time, present the characters as one, and only one type of black and white human. And that is the word. Human. Nothing else. The excellent performance by Edward Norton gives us a view of what those divisions in the human soul makes of us. The treatment of a very delicate theme such as racism is very well handled here. Nobody wins. Only hate and rage, justified poorly by us, are the winners. This movie isnÂ´t about Derek (Edward Norton), it is about Danny ( Edward Furlong). His point of view of what life is to him...and how it changes. The scenes were shocking. That is reality. The cinematography is great ( water flowing from the shower). The realism of the story purely convinces us. Nothing is left aside, my thoughts were still flowing like for about thirty minutes after the film was over. I was sitting still, looking at the screen, thinking " Oh my God, this is what we do, this is how we do it, and this is absolutely human!"...Human race is pretty dumb, we like to dislike ourselves.