Story Telling Unit Film Research: American History X Trailer

American History X is a film based around two brothers and their life in a gang. The gang can be stated as skin heads, they see Hitler as a idol and believe that anyone that is not white is their enemy. The story follows the two brothers as one is in jail and the other younger brother is now joining the group that the older brother Derek was apart of. Derek was sent to prison for killing two men after they tired to steal his car, he was sentenced for three years. Danny was apart of the group with his brother Derek but when his brother was sent away the leader of the gang decided to involve him more in the activities of the group. The story follows the two brothers when Derek gets out of prison and how he tries to distance his family from these people.

This story relates to how my characters are struggling and wanted to be apart of something larger. It also relates in the way that the older brother sees the issue with the group and tries to remove the younger brother from the group that can be described as poison. I believe the group they were part of in American History X can be related to a cult if they had a religious aspect to the general following, without this I would call them as being a large hatred group. The idea of my commune is related to a cult due to the idea due to the base of a religious aspect. As the group I have created is based on fundamental christianity.