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New Century of Cinema
DOWSE Guide to the
Movies
by Tony Lee editor of
Pigasus
Press
American History X
114 minutes (18) EV
Director: Tony Kaye
review by Steven Hampton
Gruelling antiracist tract, starring Edwards Norton and Furlong
as young men mesmerised by a vile neo-Nazi (played by Stacy Keach). Great
performances from Elliott Gould, Beverly D'Angelo, and Star Trek: DS9 captain
Avery Brooks, in a supporting cast that includes Fairuza Balk and blonde Jennifer
Lien (late of Star Trek Voyager). After release from prison for brutal murder,
Norton's character is a changed man and attempts to guide his younger brother (Furlong)
away from the evil influence of a white supremacist group. Shot largely in monochrome,
this drama's numerous flashbacks detail a sanitised but harsh prison regime where
bigotry is beaten out of the hatemonger, ironically yet predictably not by gangs of
black inmates, but by his own kind.
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