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Key Ideas Of Discrimination And Redemption In Film

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The movie American History X directed by Tony Kaye, portrays the key ideas of discrimination and redemption which are heavily shown in two particular scenes, enhanced with the use of two particular film techniques. The first scene, called the ‘Curb Stomp Scene’, highlights the idea of discrimination while the second scene, ‘The Shower Scene: Two Brothers’, shows the key idea of redemption and how the main characters are planning to start a new. The film techniques of mise en scene and editing help to enhance the ideas to the audience.

In the curb stomp scene in the movie American History X, the film technique of editing is used when Danny (one of the protagonist in the film) is explaining what happened that night that sent his older Neo Nazi
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