Powerful

Rating: 10/10 (13 March 2007)

To be repetitive, this is one of the most powerful films I have ever watched.
And sorry, baypacman, but I'm not buying your dissertation. You seem to have wanted, or expected, a different movie. And that's fine. But the fact that Kaye produced his movie instead of your movie does not render American History X "extremely naive and intellectually bankrupt."
As to your third point, killing someone to protect your car's radio is not, in any state in this country, self-defense. It's called murder.
As to your fourth point, Derek turned his back on his fellow skinheads not because they had "dealings" with a Hispanic inmate, but because they were "dealing" drugs to the Hispanic inmate and, according to Derek's moral compass at the time, drugs were the scourge of the black community.