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American History X Full Movie Reaction! (Patreon)

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2023-01-19 23:01:00
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2026-06
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Content Warning. This film is gratuitously bleak, and features imagery and language that is hateful, racist, and disturbing. I honestly can't recommend it, but here is our reaction, which will be exclusive to Patreon, since none of it can be shown on Youtube.


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Mike VanSoest

Avery brooks. (commander sisko from deep space nine)

Khalayx

This movie was very popular when I was a teenager 15-20 years ago (really dating myself here). I think it struggles because it is trying to target mature adult topics toward a younger adult audience (at a time when there was no social media and teens in particular had a lot less exposure to those conversations). And there were also a number of films around that time that kind of confused shock value with artistic merit (I would say that two years later Requiem for a Dream falls into the same trap, for example). The strangest thing about rewatching this movie after so many years is that many of the topics portrayed and discussed - race riots and police brutality, the far/alt right movement, and school shootings - seem even more commonplace and real now than they did back then. Probably that has more to do with a change in my own awareness (plus perhaps a change in media coverage), but it's weird to reflect on. It feels less like "American history" and more just like "America" to me now, sadly.

Roland

Your analysis of this movie, what it is about, the main beats and what the point of some of the pivotal scene's are is so different from the way I experienced this movie that I don't even know where to start addressing them. I'm sorry you didn't enjoy the movie though, because it definitely made a big impression on me while growing up. On rewatch the ending was really silly. That they left this crime scene with nobody working on it and then they just let the brother run in? If they wanted a scene with Derek and dead Danny they should've really come up with something better :D