"American History X: A Critical View of the Movie" is a critical article written by Eric Loveday that focuses on the ideology of the film American History X. The piece was written exclusively for the Associated Press website. As many of us know, American History X is a very controversial film that focuses on several immense issues that currently exist in America. Eric Loveday points out two of these ideological issues by stating what the themes of the film are. The first thing he points out is that this film is built around the ideas of racism and white supremacy. He says that this theme helps the audience to realize that white supremacy groups are still very active and have a certain amount of strength even to this day. The other major theme that he points out is that politics is the fuel to the racism inferno. In short, Eric states that the government withholds jobs from white people. Therefore, they retaliate for this "unfair" treatment. I feel the following quote conveys the idea of Eric Loveday's entire article.
"The government is to blame for much of what is wrong with society today. Derrick blames the government for letting illegal immigrants come to our country and for letting them steal jobs from the whites within this country."
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This is a great movie. I can't believe I didn't think of it before because there are so many ways to break down this film and analyze it.
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