This is one of the questions that the film "Apt Pupil" asks. But, the film does more than this. ... Therefore, if you have not seen the film, please stop reading now; then, after you've seen the film, please come back. ... This is the key question the film attempts to answer. ... When the film opens, the evil in Dussander is dormant. ...
Most will not just follow the crowd or follow some dictator, because they know better. ... In addition to the newspapers, the film industry was also very closely supervised. ... Karl Ritter, a fanatical Nazi, film director, glorified death in battle in his films (Rhodes 21). ... "The effect of these films was inordinate. ... Under Allied interrogation, they revealed the influence these films had had on them"(Rhodes 21). ...
In the years that followed, the Skinhead movement spread from England to the Continent and beyond. ... They look the same as their racist counterparts without the Nazi insignia and follow many of the same fashions including a taste for oi, music, beer and violence. ... Although the story on which the film is based is fictionalised, there are indeed racist Skins Down Under and some of them actually liked the film. ...
