American History X I hope this topic hasnt been up before
#1
Posted 08 February 2005 - 09:19 PM
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#2
Posted 08 February 2005 - 09:35 PM
I don't, because it WAS required viewing at my school. I mean, my class and I watched it together. It's super-violent and depressing; while it makes a valid point about racism, not everyone will automatically get something out of it.
I mean, different people respond to different things. I think that some people can get a lot out of this film but it's certainly not for everybody. Where one person might see "life-changingly profound," another might see "gratuitous and stomach-churning". It's overlooking the complexity of human learning styles to assume that everyone will be moved by the same stimuli that moved you.
Plus, boys totally like and "get" this movie more than girls. It's a boy movie. The violence, the "hard knocks", the lack of female characters who aren't actively having sex with someone in a given scene... Meh.
No movie should be required viewing at public schools. Episodes of Scientific American Frontiers should, though. That show rocks!!
#3
Posted 08 February 2005 - 10:16 PM
Truthfully though I can see where the sex and violence are bad things but in this case I think they're used to add realism to the film, not to carry the film.
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Posted 08 February 2005 - 10:22 PM
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....We'd be lying though.
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#5
Posted 09 February 2005 - 01:34 AM
on the other hand...
JM brings up an interesting point.
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#6
Posted 09 February 2005 - 07:40 AM
Less Is More v4
Now resigned to a readership of me, my cat and some fish
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Posted 10 February 2005 - 01:23 PM
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Posted 10 February 2005 - 04:03 PM
#10
Posted 10 February 2005 - 10:19 PM
JM's official press secretary, scientific advisor, diplomat and apparent antagonist?
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Posted 11 February 2005 - 09:00 AM
#12
Posted 12 February 2005 - 12:09 AM
In jail, he meets a single black guy who cracks jokes while they do laundry, so he decides that black guys are ok. At the same time, the Nazis inside aren't as nice as the ones he'd known outside, so he decides not to be racist anymore.
I think a less visible, less morality play kind of character conversion would have been more realistic. A lot of guys soften in jail. On the other hand, a more interesting story to me would have been about how he never softened. Then when **spoiler removed**, he could blame the black man, and we could see how the cycle continues without reflection.
I guess I just found the ending a bit too ABC Afterschool Special, you know?
EDIT: removed a spoiler. Sorry folks; wasn't thinking.
This post has been edited by civilian_number_two: 12 February 2005 - 04:28 PM
#13
Posted 12 February 2005 - 01:59 AM
ROFL!!!!!! It's true!