good movie

Rating: 8/10 (15 March 2001)

"american history x" shows us a young boy belonging to americas neo-nazis. the film shows us episodes of the past of this boy, how he got into all this. his brother was jailed for three years for shooting two blacks. now he comes out as a different man and tries to help his little brother out of the scene.
the movie has excellent actors (edward norton is brilliant as the older brother). it is beatiful shot. the flashbacks are in black&white and very impressive. the music is very good - well they did everything well here and created a very good movie.
I'm not from LA (where american history x takes place), and I can not say for sure how realistic the movie is. but I think they tried to make it as realistic as possible, and i suppose they did quite well.
there are some violent scenes in there (but not many), so if you cannot handle violence in movies, this is perhaps nothing for you.
8/10