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Re: american history x

note: this is gonna be long...

hmmm....people seem to want to talk about this flick. ok, i do too, i've always liked talking about this flick.

the first time i saw it was the original run in theaters. should i say that i love it dearly? should i say that it almost made me cry - to think that people (i know a few,even) actually act and think like this and i can do nothing about it except watch in the sidelines.
i thought the greatest (and most harrowing) thing about american history x is that it shows that even though we can all change our behaviour, we can repent, make amends, all that is needed to make up for our actions, there are still others around who won't change. i think that may be the fear part of it that people had mentioned - no matter what we do to make ourselves better there can always be someone waiting who doesn't care about that and is hung up on something else. i don't want to spoil the flick for anyone who hasn't seen it and plans to, so if you have, you'll understand.
i also noticed that every major character in the movie cared about something - care for a person, care for themself, care for their ideas (however wrong) - deeply enough to do any number of things for the cause.

the first time i saw it....it was an evening show. and there were a lot of people on the streets when we were leaving who reminded the audience of the characters in the movie, there were many people in the audience who were leaving very frightened for themselves. they all seemed to gravitate to me as we walked the alley between the theater and the restaurant next door to get to the parking lots. i'm not sure why they did that, and i think i actually was crying a bit (don't tell ANYONE that) so it made no sense that they'd stick with me for safety reasons. either way, they slowed their pace and before i knew it there wer 10 people right next to me who i didn't knowwalking to their cars. i walked past where i had parked and they all followed closely 'till they got to their cars - a few had to double back to their car after they noticed they had passed it. i walked around the block a few times and all the people who were waiting outside the door after the movie were gone, i'm not sure to where, but i didn't want to find out. i walked back to my car, still not having said a word after seeing the flick.

i told all my friends about the movie the next day and most of them went and saw it right away. we've never really said what we thought of it, just 'damned good flick', nothing about what we felt afterword.

i think romper stomper got to me more, and higher learning is up there on my list of flicks too.

okay, i wanna write more, but you're probably all bored of hearing me, and i have to get some studying done now.
so, enjoy your night all, and, if you've read all this, thanks for hearing me out.

---dan in michigan

np: david bowie - golden years
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