Journal: American History This is definitely a film about racism that doesn't follow the traditional Hollywood way of showing the victim's side of the story. The audience of this film will be bound, this time, to the racist's point of view, with the help of various cinematic elements and literary design that are used to force the viewer to empathize and perhaps even appreciate the hero/villain of the film. history. On the tape of an interview Derek gives after his father's murder, he talks about what he believes to be the reason for the tragedy. He claims that people like his father, "a respectable, hard-working American," were being ripped off by social parasites - that is, in his opinion, black, Asian, brown - minorities who went to America, he adds, only to exploit it and not embrace it. He gives the examples of poor white European immigrant communities who were able to succeed after a few generations in supporting his view that social issues are actually racial issues. And he continues by saying that every crime in the USA is linked to crime: immigration, AIDS, welfare. Derek is seen in the background crying while being comforted by his mother. He is dressed as a teenager while the staging here tries to make the actor, Edward Norton, look the right age for the time the interview took place. You can easily see the American flag in front of Derek's house. The director doesn't demonize Derek as the bad, stupid skin head. Instead, he is presented as an intelligent young man who believes what he preaches. What he says in this scene is shocking, but before hearing the shocking words, the audie...... middle of paper...... until the moment he tears off his shirt to show off his appearance neo-Nazi tattoos – Murray happens to a Jew. Murray leaves the house shocked by Derek's anti-Semitic insults. The 1992 riots highlighted the racial tensions that are still present in the United States these days; Derek's transformation into a neo-Nazi is an example of one of the consequences of this tension. This scene opens and closes with a shot of a large American flag hanging on the porch of Derek's house. The American flag has already made an appearance in Danny's hands while he was talking to Sweeney at the beginning of the film. Cameron, Derek's neo-Nazi mentor, will be seen drinking from a glass with the American flag on it. The American flag leaves no room to label someone else a racist. The racists in this film are not the crazy Nazi Germans who have infiltrated American soil, but the Americans.

Topic > Journal: American History This is definitely a film about racism that doesn't follow the traditional Hollywood way of showing the victim's side of the story. The audience of this film will be bound, this time, to the racist's point of view, with the help of various cinematic elements and literary design that are used to force the viewer to empathize and perhaps even appreciate the hero/villain of the film. history. On the tape of an interview Derek gives after his father's murder, he talks about what he believes to be the reason for the tragedy. He claims that people like his father, "a respectable, hard-working American," were being ripped off by social parasites - that is, in his opinion, black, Asian, brown - minorities who went to America, he adds, only to exploit it and not embrace it. He gives the examples of poor white European immigrant communities who were able to succeed after a few generations in supporting his view that social issues are actually racial issues. And he continues by saying that every crime in the USA is linked to crime: immigration, AIDS, welfare. Derek is seen in the background crying while being comforted by his mother. He is dressed as a teenager while the staging here tries to make the actor, Edward Norton, look the right age for the time the interview took place. You can easily see the American flag in front of Derek's house. The director doesn't demonize Derek as the bad, stupid skin head. Instead, he is presented as an intelligent young man who believes what he preaches. What he says in this scene is shocking, but before hearing the shocking words, the audie...... middle of paper...... until the moment he tears off his shirt to show off his appearance neo-Nazi tattoos – Murray happens to a Jew. Murray leaves the house shocked by Derek's anti-Semitic insults. The 1992 riots highlighted the racial tensions that are still present in the United States these days; Derek's transformation into a neo-Nazi is an example of one of the consequences of this tension. This scene opens and closes with a shot of a large American flag hanging on the porch of Derek's house. The American flag has already made an appearance in Danny's hands while he was talking to Sweeney at the beginning of the film. Cameron, Derek's neo-Nazi mentor, will be seen drinking from a glass with the American flag on it. The American flag leaves no room to label someone else a racist. The racists in this film are not the crazy Nazi Germans who have infiltrated American soil, but the Americans.