American History X: Filmanalyse og spørgsmål

The movie is over 2 days with a flashback. When you look back in time, the film is black and white and when you see nutid the movie is in colour.

American history x is a movie about racism and Nazism people. The movie is Their father worked as a fireman, but one day was their father killed, while he turn off a fire in a black neighbourhood, he is shot by two black drug dealer. Derek who is the eldest son becomes very upset that he was killed. He believes that all black people are criminals. Derek has had a hatred for blacks, not only because his father was killed by them, but also because his father days after day criticize the black and mentioned them ugly. Racism has been in the family for generations. The film is about the environment in a city in the U.S.A., called Venice Beach. Derek Vinyard, who is the protagonist in the film lived their. He is director of the city's racists, and one day when they are playing basketball, there will be a black people over. They challenge each other, and agree to the losers have lost the right to play there forever. Derek and his team wins, and later that evening, try some of the blacks to take revenge by stealing his car. This detects little brother Daniel Vinyard who awakens his older brother Derek. He takes his gun, then go down and shoot the two blacks. He gets arrested and gets 3 years. In prison, he comes to work with a variety that has been 6 years for stealing a television. Derek can not find his place in prison, and will soon be enemies with everybody and everything. He is just waiting to either blacks or whites kill him. This never happens. Since Derek has served his 3 years he says goodbye to his mate before he must go. Companion tells him that the only reason that he is not dead in there is he. When he gets out of prison he will be almost regarded as a hero among the other racists, as he has proposed two blacks to death. He does not want to have anything with the racists do, but it is not something you just come straight out. He also has another problem in his younger brother Daniel Vinyard has come well into the racist environment, and he certainly did not intend to speak from. Derek tells Daniel about his life in prison, and how a black man has saved him from death and how prison changed him. Daniel understands it all, and they go home and pull all posters down as a sign that they no longer bother to have anything to do with it. Danny gets shot in the bathroom at his school by a black boy whom he had provoked. Derek hear the shot and ran back to school where he saw Danny dead lying on the ground, then break his legs together and he starts to cry and hold on him.