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101 things I learned from Neo Ned

posted 14 years ago by kcg98
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First, I wanna say I'm not hating on this movie. It was interesting and entertaining. This is for fun. Obviously, there are spoilers.

1. A Neo Nazi just has to meet one black woman in order to change his mind.

2. If you were court ordered to go to a mental institute, and became too violent to stay there, they will buy you a ticket home and drop you off in a public place rather than transfer you.

3. If you sign yourself into a mental institute, you can run off whenever you want without any problems.

4. When you steal a car, make sure it's a crappy one because then no one will report it stolen.

5. Obtaining a gun after being accused of murder and fresh out of a mental institute can be done legally, therefore when you shoot a person, don't bother wiping off your fingerprints and trying to flee. If you confess, the police will not bother looking for eyewitnesses or try to investigate the incident.

[–] Popsita 14 years ago

hahaha these are so true :)

[–] littledogallen 14 years ago

6. prison is really fun especially when you get to hang out with your dad and play cards.

7. Nazis just want to feel like they belong

8. 1 white shirt will last you months.

9. people sign themselves into mental institutions cause they are bored.

10. moms are often very proud of their son when they go to jail.

11. you cannot *beep* anyone

[–] Gordon_Gartrelle 14 years ago

12. - Some crazy looking dude comes into your store asking to purchase a tripod and not for one second do you feel he is going to knock you over the head with it.

[–] Popsita 13 years ago

LOL i love this

[–] gold_nava17 13 years ago

13. When a counselor in a psychiatric hospital see's a patient constantly racially harassing another patient by calling them the n-word just don't say anything about it and let it go on!

[–] EvaStone 12 years ago

14. When you attack a counsellor in a psychiatric hospital, they don't say anything, still buy you a bus ticket and wish you well.

How long can you pretend you're something before you really become it.

[–] crasyjaszi294 12 years ago

14. A black woman's hair will not become heinously frizzy when wet if you're in a film.

15. You can easily remember a language you took in one year of high school fluently enough to be considered Hitler.

16. There's nothing wrong with walking around in a swastika shirt blatantly for days. (You also maintain a fresh odor.)

17. Black women don't care if they've merely known you for days and you've killed a black man as well as been called the n word repetitively by them, they'll not only have sex with you, but abandon their daughter for you and live in a trailer park.

18. In a film about a racially biased individual accepting an enemy race there only has to be one black person in the entire movie.

19. Not all skin heads have skinned heads.

[–] lovece7 12 years ago

You obviously did not understand the movie. Ned was not really a racist, he joined the gang because he longed for a family, a place to belong. So him falling in love with Rachel wasn't a stretch. And FYI, in MANY cases, it does take that one person, that RIGHT person to change you.

Another stupid post by and unoriginal troll.

[–] theocchick23 12 years ago

LOL thats great :) i just bought this movie i love it

[–] jaye50-1 12 years ago

i am sick of this practice of hollywood that whenever a black actress obtains any fame.... she has to be then paired with white leading men.... as if to show that she's "made it".... and newsflash... if you join a racist organization.... regardless of the reason... you're a racist... even if only by virtue of support....

and sick of black people being written by white people that have no idea of who or what we are.... the idea of a black woman falling in love with a neo nazi is repulsive and insulting.... and any black woman that did... needs her a** kicked.... repeatedly....

[–] CranberryNoVodka 12 years ago

It's not like it doesn't happen...some people are willing to make huge exceptions.
"You mustn't be afraid to dream a little bigger, darling."

[–] BijouDiva 12 years ago

People have the right to love who they want. She saw through Ned's racism. She knew he only wanted attention. You can tell, by the way she spoke to him at the hospital. When she asks if he really killed a man, you can tell that she knew he wasn't really racist.

And honestly, to me he didn't come off as racist but as someone who liked to rile people up. He just like to get attention and when she ignored him, he liked her more.

[–] gljbradley 10 years ago

This!^ Once she saw through his "Neo-Nazism" and crazy behavior, she understood that he wanted attention and he eventually opened up to her more.

[–] Word-Weight 11 years ago

1.) I thought it was pretty obvious that Ned, as a person, not a "Neo-Nazi," was using his half-baked beliefs as a pose and defense mechanism, a method second to his "mental illness" that played a part in him trying to project the image everyone around him expected of him to regardless of what it was. The theme was dropped over and over again that he was purposely trying to convince people he was "just as terrible as everyone thinks I am." Even the title "Neo-NED" gave me that vibe [which actually means New Ned]. This is why I felt the love interest equation worked so well; she saw through his false pretenses and allowed him to be himself, even being mentally strong enough to understand that his "racist slurs" were more like a cheap fabric he was wearing, thus taking no damage.

In the clip shown of him being forced to kick a dead African-American, he not only refuses to do so, but was apprehensive before he knew what was happening; he didn't have any genuine hatred in the Nazi practices. It seemed clear to me that his character was more or less "along for the ride" when it came to being a part of the Neo-Nazi family, [as well as everything else in this movie] and was looking for just that: a family. "Supporting the causes" doesn't make you a racist if in the end all you prove to be is a faker, a poser, and a *beep* underneath. We have many posers "who will do it all to be accepted" in all kinds of social groups. It's called high school. Heck, it's called social climbers. People lie to themselves and other people all the time just to get validation. Looking convincing doesn't make it truth.

Ned was both a poser and a troll at the same exact time.

That's why the pairing didn't come off as badly as I felt it was before I understood his character. He was not something like American History X at all. Which would've been unrealistic in my opinion, unless they went through some bigger development.