Where no man has gone before.

Rating: 8/10 (21 July 2003)

American History X is a piece of brilliant satire that director Tony Kaye took to the next level. No one has ever to my knowledge made a film about Nazism. It's all ways been considered such a sacred thing that no director, producer, or movie goer would ever want to touch. The amount of symbolism and irony in this film is unbelievable. Edward Norton as usual delivers a brilliant preformance as a White supremicist who is jailed for murdering two gang members for attempting to break into his car. While he is in prison his younger brother (Edward Furlong) begins to show signs that he is following in his brothers foot steps. While in prison nortons character meets a group of fellow skin heads who end up turning on him. It is then that he relizes that you can't hold a certain group of people responible for the actions of just a few, and that hate is just a waste of time. The entire cast delivers an excellent preformance. I strongly recomend this film to those with a strong stomach and a desire to see a film that wasn't made for profits, but made to teach something. It's rare these days for a film to really teach something, but at the same time keep you interested and wondering whats gonna happen next.