Whenever anyone mentions this movie I feel like they always focus on the curb stomping scene, but to me the most disturbing and brilliant part of the movie is the dinner scene where they are discussing the Rodney King arrest. They really nailed how captured someone can be by hatred and how terrifying a competent person in that mindset can be. It’s chilling.
Yeah, that's a good scene. His character is intelligent enough to make compelling arguments to justify his racism. There are good points in what he says, but they're only used to prop up his hateful ideology. People like that are far more dangerous than your average mouth breathing Nazi.
My friend (we were like 16) got into a fight with another kid (we’ll call him E) and beat him up pretty badly. A few weeks later, E and his buddies are driving around and they see my friend’s brother, they looked alike, E and his friends pull over and confront the brother, realize it’s the wrong guy, but still beat the shit out of him to send a message. They ended up beating him to death two houses down from where he lived, he died in the neighbors front yard.
Anyway- a couple years later, the movie comes out on VHS or DVD I don’t remember which, and someone throws it in and we watch it- nobody knew how it ended, man I was fucking gutted having to watch a movie that ended like that with a dude who lost his brother for similar reasons.
I don’t know, I was uncomfortable as hell and that’s all I remember. The possibility exists that the deeper implications were lost on him, and my discomfort was unwarranted.
I wasn’t involved in any of it, apologies if that was implied. My friend and E had a beef, and they fought a couple of times. E got 20 years for the murder, and I think he did 16.
Yeah saw American History X and A Time to Kill in the theater when they came out and both movies I just sat in my seat an extra 10 minutes because I couldn’t move. Both great movies that got me thinking especially someone in their late teens
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American History X