America history x

[Chris Wood]

what is the film trying to say?

[map08]

That he shouldn't have been a Nazi in the first place? Or that racial hatred is a constant in humanity?

[wmissildine]

While the subject matter was politically loaded, I think the film is more of a portrait than anything, giving lip service to a number of different voices around the issues of racial prejudice. Obviously it tended to condemn bigotry (through the transformation of Ed Norton's character), but I think the film didn't really "try" to say anything, instead it asked the viewer to consider the complications of the issues, and not be dogmatic and naive to the human side of both the oppressed and the oppressors.