
American History X
(Usa, 1998) [Color, 119 m.]
Género: Drama político.
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Ficha técnica.
Dirección: Tony Kaye.
Guión: David McKenna.
Fotografía: Tony Kaye.
Música: Anne Dudley.
Producción: John Morrissey, David McKenna.
Productora: New Line Cinema / Savoy Pictures / The Turman-Morrissey Company.
Sinopsis: Derek (Norton) es un joven skin head de ideología neonazi que fue encarcelado por asesinar a unos negros que pretendían robar su furgoneta. Después de pasar varios años en prisión, retorna a su barrio completamente reformado y con la intención de transformar a su hermano pequeño (Furlong), para quien Derek ha sido su modelo a seguir. (FILMAFFINITY)
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Norton es un joven neonazi de California que va a la cárcel por cometer un crimen brutal. Cuando sale con intención de reinsertarse en la sociedad, apartado de la violencia y de sus anteriores ideas racistas, descubre que su hermano pequeño se encuentra sumergido en la espiral de odio y vandalismo de los grupos fascistas a los que él pertenecía. Entonces luchará por llevar una vida normal mientras intentar alejar a toda su familia, y en especial a su hermano, del mismo camino que a él le llevó a prisión. Una demoledora película de marcada narración efectista y mensaje explícito, drama intenso y contundente, quizá sobrevalorado, pero que ante la aparición del escalofriante Edward Norton se eleva por encima de la docena de films denuncia de los últimos años... hasta alcanzar su máximo techo; esto es: una merecedísima nominación al Oscar para el excelente y joven actor americano. (Pablo Kurt: FILMAFFINITY)
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Consigue un efecto perturbador (Omar Khan: Cinemanía)
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Brutal (...) pone el listón cinematográfico inalcanzable (Beatrice Sartori: Diario El Mundo)
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Sorprendente, pone los pelos de punta y Norton quita el aliento (J.R. Mantilla: Diario El País)
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AMG Synopsis: Tony Kaye made his feature directorial debut with this dramatic exploration into the roots of race hatred in America. In a shocking opening scene, teen Danny Vinyard (Edward Furlong) races to tell his older brother, neo-Nazi Derek (Edward Norton), about the young blacks breaking into his car in front of the house, whereupon Derek gets his gun and with no forethought shoots the youths in their tracks. Tried and convicted, Derek is sent away for three years in prison, where he acquires a different outlook as he contrasts white-power prisoners with black Lamont (Guy Torry), his prison laundry co-worker and eventual pal. Meanwhile, Danny, with a shaved head and a rebellious attitude, seems destined to follow in his big brother's footsteps. After Danny writes a favorable review of Hitler's Mein Kampf, black high-school principal Sweeney (Avery Brooks) puts Danny in his private "American History X" course and assigns him to do a paper about his older brother, who was a former student of Sweeney's. This serves to introduce flashbacks, with the film backtracking to illustrate Danny's account of Derek's life prior to the night of the shooting. Monochrome sequences of Derek leading a Venice, California gang are intercut with color footage of the mature Derek ending his past neo-Nazi associations and attempting to detour Danny away from the group led by white supremacist, Cameron (Stacy Keach), who once influenced Derek. Director Tony Kaye, with a background in TV commercials and music videos, filmed in L.A. beach communities. Rated R "for graphic brutal violence including rape, pervasive language, strong sexuality and nudity."
AMG Review: Edward Norton is absolutely riveting as the menacing skinhead at the center of American History X, in the controversial star-making performance that earned him his second Oscar nomination. Among many impressive feats the actor pulls off in the role of Derek Vinyard, Norton packs on so much bulk that he is virtually unrecognizable from his debut as the scrawny schizophrenic in Primal Fear two years earlier. Standing shirtless with his hands behind his ears, at police gunpoint, Norton radiates the righteous hatred of a monster in the body of a tattooed Adonis. Unfortunately, the rest of the film is not equal to Norton's buff acting chops and searing presence. It ventures into shocking territory and presents violent images that can't be unseen, but it also resolves core issues in simplistic ways that are out of synch with its uncompromising intensity. The way the script handles Vinyard's unlikely prison mea culpa is especially scant, as though only the hatred were interesting enough to warrant serious treatment. Director Tony Kaye deserves credit for bringing a crisp look to the project, including the black-and-white flashback sequences that underscore Norton's talent and accentuate the rawness of the film's themes. But American History X could benefit from some subtlety in its handling of the complexity of bigotry, as well as its ultimate repudiation. A film clearly meant to make audiences reevaluate their prejudices, American History X is too extreme for viewers to meaningfully extrapolate its message to their own lives.
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Filmografía Tony Kaye (Director)
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