Edward Norton and Edward Furlong Star in American History X®

<body> <p>Welcome to Oscar season. A time of incredibly long-in-length movies (which American History X is not) and a time of films that make reviewers like me wince. It’s time for movies that are about topics so unappetizingly bad that I have to remind myself that I get paid to sit through them. Thus, on today’s chopping block is American History X which offers fine performances by its stars, a clear-cut story and shocking twist ending story about skin-head racism.</p> <p>AHX is brutal, at times violent, and always in your face tale of the son of a middle class firefighter, murdered by a drug dealer while putting out a fire as told by the younger brother who has followed the path into a life of hate. In flashback sequences, appropriately shot in black and white, we meet Derek Vinland (Edward Norton), who has been lured into the life by the Neo-Nazi Cameron (Stacey Keach). The film quickly sets up a brutal murder of a pair of African-Americans who have broken into Derek’s car in the middle of the night -- Cranky emphasizes brutal -- and lingers on the huge swastika tattooed into his chest. The hate on Norton’s face is downright unsettling.</p> </p><a href="../../index.html">Entertainment Drive (eDrive)</a> </body>