Three years later, everyone awaits Derek’s return: His mother Doris (Beverly D’Angelo) who prays for his safety; his girlfriend Stacey (Fairuza Balk) and his brother Danny who longs for his brother Derek’s love and guidance yet is driven by his own increasing white supremacist hatred. Unbeknownst to Danny, Derek is a changed man. Fresh from prison, he no longer views hatred as a badge of honor. Ashamed of his past he is now in a race to save Danny and the Vinyard family from violence he brought down upon them.

There are many scenes throughout the movies, which show what kind of hatred Derek originally had. One night two black kids attempted to steal Derek’s car, as the result of a playground feud, and he shoots them dead. If that wasn’t enough, before killing one of the individuals, he smashed his jaw against the curb. “Yes, the scene is dramatically unnecessary, yes, it’s meant to shock rather than illuminate – but it’s disturbingly effective.”(Thomson 2) You could see the rage in him because of the camera work that was done during that scene. It was a slow motion shot of Derek in his briefs looking over at his brother with a gun in his hand. Derek then placed himself on his knees, with his hands behind his head, just as the police arrived as if he was proud of his actions. He is convicted of murder and sent to prison for three years.

overcome, and must be at all costs. Nobody should be able to feel superior to another person simply because of race. Everything that this country has worked for in the last century is compromised by these changes. Undoubtedly America has suffered great hardships, however, the country today cannot allow their past to influence racial equality.

The story unfolds through the eyes of Danny Vinyard (Edward Furlong), who idolizes his older brother Derek (Edward Norton). Seeking retribution for his father’s murder and burning a way to vent his rage, Derek finds himself transformed by a philosophy of hate as he turns into a charismatic leader of a local white power movement in Venice, California. . “Hooking up with a local white-power activist Cameron (Stacey Keach), he organizes a group of white kids into an organized mob who terrorize local non-white owned businesses.” (Reich 1) The scariest and most convincing scenes are the ones in which we see the skinheads bonding. They’re led by Derek’s brilliant speechmaking and fueled by drugs, beer, tattoos, heavy metal and the need all insecure people feel to belong to a movement greater than them. Derek center stage before his fellow gang members is protesting against America and their leniency towards the non-white societies. They felt cheated of their right to own and direct the country. These scenes illustrate the mob mentality, which is created by white power groups. Despite his

Through these flashback scenes, we learn that the family’s father, a fireman, was shot and killed by black addicts while fighting a fire in a crack house in a black neighborhood. Later we learn it wasn’t just his father’s murder, but his dinner table conversation that encouraged his son’s bigotry; his father tutors Derek in racism, but the scene feels like as if the father is g

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