American History X is a film about the love between two brothers, Derek and his little brother Danny, and how the choices they make as teenagers affects them, their family and the rest of the society for life. The story takes place in a neo-nazi environment on Venice Beach, a suburb in South-California.
Derek Vinyard is a intelligent and well read young man. He lives in a normal family and is just like every other teenager. He is doing well in school and has a good relationship with his black principal, Dr. Sweeney. When his father founds out about this relationship he startes to poison him with his racial opinions against black people.
But these opinions doesn’t seem to affect him much until one day his father is out doing his job as a fireman and gets killed by a black man. Derek changes radically and becomes a person full of anger and hate towards black people and other minorities.
When he meets Cameron Alexander, who is the leader of the neo-nazi group White-Power, he’s like a fly caught in the spiders-web and he directly becomes a member. Alexander uses his sorrow, depression and frustration and turnes him into one of the strongest neo-nazist in the group.
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