American history x Made a big impact to anyone who has watched it. As Edward Norton plays neo-nazi skinhead hating the world and ends up in prison being hated by white people and befriended by people of other races. The tag line of the film was "His father taught him to hate. His friends taught him rage. His enemies gave him hope."
The story is narrated by Edward Norton's younger brother played by Edward Furlong.
The film shows the extent racism can reach and the way it can change people to the extent they will murder anyone who is different from them.

Edward Norton in this film ends up murdering a black man who attempts to steal his car in the middle of the night. Norton humiliates him and pushes him to the floor and makes him bite the pavement and stamps on his mouth and crushes his skull. Also during the film he raided a local supermarket in the night with a gang of white skin head and torturing anyone of another race and choking them on different foods and hitting them , even the women. This shows the extent of his hate and makes it a very powerful and shocking scene on the film and played amazingly. The actions he has performed and they way he has been brought up leads him to believe anyone of a different rave from white is scum. These thoughts carry onto his younger brother , who tells the story of this brother through is school report.

One of the most powerful scenes was when Edward Norton was in prison having a shower and was raped by white men. And It was a black man who ended up helping him and supporting him through it. Edward Norton played this scene amazingly and showed real remorse and wanted to be forgiven by this black school teacher, You felt his pain and guilt in his performance. This is where his character changed. He came home and attempted to change his family , Him and his younger brother rips down all the posters of Hitler and Nazi's.

Edward furlongs performance throughout the film was outstanding and believable. Although he was telling a story about someone else. He was the star of the film , showing every emotion .

The brothers are brought closer together when Edward Norton returns from jail. And teaches his brother what he was taught in prison. To find out It was to late ending him in Edward furlongs death in his school toilets from a shooting.

The directer Tony Kaye was very brave to make this movie but put such passion and art into it by making all flashbacks black and white. It became powerful , moving and a film that would make even the strongest minded person to have a tear in there eye. Also this film is capable to making the audience think about reality and does this really happen in other places? does it happen when our backs are turned for a second? can we be so cruel as to judge someone for color and not mind?