A very polemical film that has some great acting in it as well!

Rating: 10/10 (14 October 2001)

American History X is a film that looks at racism in the today's society and how it is simply a form of ignorance that has existed in this country for many years. As a minority college student I found this film to be intriguing as well as polemical because it looked at a man by the name of Derek Vinyard(Edward Norton) and how his views of other ethnicities simply changed because of an event that happened earlier in his life. Because of that as well as other family influences he went on to believe that all minorities were simply in the United States because they "slipped through the cracks" because some immigrants were over here in the US illegal and he also believed that they were trying to take what the "white man" has owned for years and that simply is not the case. Norton's character eventually becomes incarcerated and this eventually leads to his complete reformation which I found to be amazing but in the same sense it let me know that anyone can change their belief of something such as racism, they just have to want to do so first. American History X is an excellent movie with some great acting and a good movie for anyone who has views on racism or hating someone else because of their race.