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Originally Posted by queensgrl
This film is excellent but left me feeling numb and disturbed. Edward Norton was phenomenal. He really deserved the Best Actor Academy Award nomination. I would love to see him in more films.
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The film is excellent and shows that racism is a learned behavior that can also be unlearned.
Edward Norton is in many movies, one of my favorites being 25th Hour.
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Originally Posted by Greenant
what's more disturbing is how tons of minorities are still thousands of times more racist than white people, yet skinheads are the ones that everyone hates while they all get a free pass.
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White Power skinheads are a small minority as far as skinheads are concerned, and most non-racists skins do not consider WP skins as real skins, even though in the beginning it was an apolitical movement. I dunno, I was friends with many SHARPS growing up. I know the deal.
American History X was about what Norton's character believed to be right, but was later shown that what he believed was a bunch of BS. I am not sure, I but I think that this movie was loosely based on the slam-poet guy Jason Carney who grew up as a Hammerskin, went to jail and was roomed with a homosexual who was dying of aids. They became friends and through that Carney began to examine who he really was, where his roots in racism came from (his parents) and what he really believed. His life parallels Norton's character pretty close.