Intriguing and impressive.

Rating: 9/10 (18 November 2004)

American History X is a movie about a boy who's brother has been in a Nazi-clan. The boy's name Daniel Vinyard and his brother is Dereck Vinyard. Daniel also becomes member of the clan. He sees his big brother as a kind of living example for his own lifestyle. Daniel had turned in a paper about "Mein Kampf" at school. The teacher ( who by the way is a dark-colored person ) does not accept it. He gives Daniel the order to write a paper about his brother's life. That's what the movie is about. In the movie you can see flashbacks about the life of Dereck and the actions he undertook with his clan. These actions are quite hard actions. Every not-white person was an evil person. But the strong thing about the movie is that not only Dereck and his clan are described as "bad" persons, also the "dark-colored" persons are evil. Both gangs are making rude actions and killing each other. The way the interaction between the two groups is described is very impressive. The movies characterizes in a good way too what wrong rascism can lead, from both sides. The end is also very impressive. I would say, watch the movie and your vision about rascism will change in a positive way. It is actually a non-necessary way of behaving. All people are equal and need to be threatened in that way. Greetings from Holland, Melchior Ensing