Matt - American History X Clips

Brief Summary: The film tells the story of two brothers, Derek Vinyard (Edward Norton) and Daniel "Danny" Vinyard (Edward Furlong) of Venice Beach in Los Angeles, California. Both are intelligent and charismatic students. Their father, a firefighter, is murdered by a black drug dealer while trying to extinguish a fire in a South Central neighborhood of Los Angeles, and Derek is drawn into the neo-Nazi movement. Derek brutally kills two black gang members whom he catches in the act of breaking into the truck left to him by his father, and is sentenced to three years in prison for voluntary manslaughter. The story shows how Danny is influenced by his older brother's actions and ideology and how Derek, now radically changed by his experience in incarceration, tries to prevent his brother from going down the same path as he did.

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http://dailyuw.com/1998/11/5/a0.americanx/

"Told from the perspective of the villain instead of the victim, it portrays the racist skinheads as more than just aimless, rage-filled punk, but rather as focused, deliberate punks. This is not to say that it's time skinheads got fair representation in the media, but it is interesting to see how easily these kids are made into racists. American History X allows us to understand them without actually sympathizing."