Hello my
lovelies,
How are you all?
Well I hope. I missed last weeks blog post due to making the crazy
decision to go and get my nose pierced and spending that day with my
best friends, then the rest of the week was filled with working so I
apologise for not giving you any new reviews to read last week.
I'm still
working on my long list of suggested films I've been given and due to
a new project that I'm hoping to tell you all about soon, this weeks
films was chosen for me to watch from this list.
Before watching
American History X, I was told that it was a hard watch and that it
was intense. I'd looked up a bit about the film but still didn't know
exactly what to expect but wasn't thinking I'd enjoy it as much as I
did, so I was surprised.
The 1998
American crime drama film directed by Tony Kaye is basically the
story of two brothers and their lives as they are involved in the
neo-Nazi movement. When looking things up about it prio to watching
it, I saw it had been described as 'a brutal skinhead emerges from
prison reformed and tries to show his neo-Nazi brother the error of
his ways', and just by that sentence I was already interested in what
this film had to show.
Throughout the
film it switches between black&white and colour to show the
difference between the past and present and I liked this. I thought
it worked really well, almost as if to say the past was a bad, darker
time in their lives so its not in colour but the present is better
than it used to be so its brighter. It also helps to tell the story
so that we are to understand why the younger brother, Danny (Edward
Furlong), is the way he is now.
It is obviously
the type of film that was made to get a reaction, and with the amount
of racist, violent scenes there were moments that I didn't like what
was happening but that's what its made to do so the film served its
purpose well. American History X is both an interesting and
surprising film. Interesting because it shows how you think some
people can be so set in their ways of doing things or acting a
certain way but that can always change and thankfully for the better
in this film. Surprising because I didn't think I'd like it but I
really got into it. Although it is nearly two hours long it held my
attention and I was so gripped to the story and characters that the
ending nearly made me cry.
The two actors
that played the brothers Edward Norton (Derek Vineyard) and Edward
Furlong (Danny Vineyard) worked brilliantly together. They seemed to
bounce off of each other and have a genuine connection that could
lead someone to believe that they were actually brothers. As the main
characters in the film they were also my favourites. I loved seeing
how Derek's actions effected Danny as he grew up alongside his older
brother and then separately whilst Derek was in prison.
Although only in
it for a short while at the beginning, the film also featured Elliot
Gould which I liked just because he was also part of Friends to be
honest.
I didn't find
American History X to be a hard watch but I would agree that it is an
intense film, some scenes more than others. I really liked it, it may
even become a favourite. I would definitely watch it again and
suggest to others to watch too, and with that I'll leave you to go
and find it for yourselves.
Until next week,
thanks for reading :) x
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