Analyse af 'American History X' og racisme

1. When is the film filmed in black and white?: When there are flashbacks in the film

so you can see when it's in the past.

2. Notice the tattoos. What do you know about the symbols?: First tattoo in the

movie is the Swastika because they are new nazis and nazis ruled back then in the

third reich in Germany with Hitler under dictatorship. Next tattoo is the emblem of

nazi germany Derek has on his upper arm.

3. What kind of family/environment do the boys grow up in?:They grew up in a

white family middle class family with a sister, dad and mom. Dad was a firefighter that

is now dead and the mom is jobless.

4. Why do the boys become racists?: I think the boys became racist because in one

scene where their dad talked about black people in that way and some days after he

got shot by a black man they became Nazis because now they hated black more

after what happened to the boy's dad.

1. Skriv et kort referat af filmen: American history X is about a guy named

Derek, played by Edward Norton. He used to be all into this neo-Nazi stuff,