AHX

One of the movies I chose to watch for class at the SIFF was American History X. I have always heard lots about this movie from friends and family but I had never got the chance watch it. Since there was a tribute at the SIFF to Edward Norton's movie this year, I thought it would be most appropriate. After watching I must say it was a pretty good movie, long, but a good movie. This movie is deep, and deals with alot of racism, alot of racism, sexism, and drama.

This film deals with KKK members and there fight in keeping it white power over the African Americans. Edward Norton plays a known member of the Venice beach white superemist movement, Derek Vinyard. He goes to jail for curve stomping and shooting at some african American gang members. The curve stomping part was pretty gruesome and wild, but sadly entertaining. So he gets out of jail and starts to slowly learn that his ideals and ways of white supremacy is wrong and tries to teach his brother and others around him through out the movie. Before that he was as racist as could be, and he wasn't racist to just blacks, but to pretty much every other race but whites. There were countless racial slurs and violence through out the movie. Through out the film there is lots of discriminate towards women, Derek curses and pulls his girlfriends hair and even shoves meat in her mouth in an argument at the dinner table.

Theres lots of masculinity in the movie, When the whites and the blacks are playing a vital basketball game to decide who will take over the basketball court and park, they play intensely and foul each other, throwing elbows to the head, knocking each other to the floor for a point. It was a very violent basketball game, and when the whites won, they where poor sports and booed then off the court and called them racial slurs until they left, there was no "hey, good game".