The transformation of a racist.

Rating: Null/10 (22 November 1998)

Ed Norton is brilliant as a neo-Nazi with a serious race problem. Norton's character, Derek Vinyard, was launched on the path to racisism as his middle-class white, fireman dad makes comments about the unfairness of affirmative action. His dad's death puts him over the edge. He relishes killing 2 blacks who are stealing his car.
Vinyard finds himself in the racial role-reversed world of prison and, while folding laundry with a young black man, has his eyes opened to what is like to be black. He questions his perspective and, on his release, comes out a very changed person.
The movie treats racisism is an utterly stark manner. When I left the theatre, I felt that I had seen someone's heart, lungs and liver cut from their body, thrown out on a table and had someone say: "Yep! That's what was in there".