American History X
The setting takes place in Venice, a little beach town in the Southern California. Derek, the leader of the neighborhood skinhead gang gets arrested and put to jail for killing two members of a Crip gang that tried to steal his car. His little fourteen year old brother has seen everything and testified for Derek, for only that reason he did not get life sentence, and just three years in a prison. In jail Derek learns the truth behind “white power” gangs and what he believed they stand for was all wrong, and not worth to fight for. He has undergone a profound change in Chino, and no longer wants himself or his little brother Daniel to take any part in the skinhead movement. Each new piece of information Derek teaches Daniel of what happened to him in jail combined with Daniel’s own concerns, creates a new consciousness in the boy’s life. This ultimately culminates in Daniel fully appreciating the knowledge he and Derek had shared no longer holds true,......
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