great little film about knowing yourself

Firstly I'm not french and am not aware of any of the actors in this
film..I know a little of the french history with the far right and I
have had my own experiences with those from that period .

I found this film to be a powerful and yet strangely understated
experience to begin with. When watching the lead play his role, I
honestly thought the film might be very one dimensional but having
watched his performance and the resulting end ..I have to say he played
the role perfectly and with real presence.

The characters that fall by the way side are given what i would
describe as a very realistic and worthy ending and the leads own ending
fits well in my view of the world. This is a film with out the
intellectual soliloquies worthy of Shakespeare of American history X
and rebellion of or the inner turmoil made plain as in The Believer..it
doesn't have the cartoonist element of Romperstomper which in my view
glorified the things that actually attract people to it with out the
other side of the coin.

When men go too prison they get forgotten..when people abuse themselves
the result is more than often what happens in the film. And when the
elitist socially acceptable bigot who dresses in middle class
respectability carry's on- taking the offspring with them they leave
the real and humanized person left behind and abandoned to the
reality's of social division and court appointed bigotry in itself. His
end may not be the idealized 'winning' of American fare but its
certainly the most likely in my book.

An understated film that delivers in spades.. And to see I'd say its a
film that shows that inner change and the consequences that come with
that change.

An innate knowledge that what one does is some how off or wrong and it
comes with small tiny moments and experiences, bits of feelings
-moments of self realization that just trigger introspection leading to
uneasiness of self .Many times never really formed into splendorous Epiphany of mind spirit and soul you see in those films where these changes are only for the
rebellious intellectual or the environmental by-product who has the
soul of a warrior/poet ..its one thats offered to everyone and the lead
displays this in his admirable lack of exposition and revelation. He
finds himself through these small moments and simply doesn't like what he feels about it.

And the result of change is the 'worth of having changed' and being a
fuller human being rather than rewarded by 'wow you changed so life's
going to reward you' as anybody whose had this kind of transformation
will tell you..your life may be better because you treat
yourself,others and life with more respect but its still life and
society, your environment and the culture will still be the same lol
loved this film.

on a minor point the whole skinhead divisions and the fact Nazi
skinheads appropriated the image from a larger preexisting two-tone
Skinhead culture is made plain..just as there were Nazi punks and Gay
skinheads (check out Nicky Crane) but that image of the skinhead nazi
seems to have stuck.

of my mind
'' I don't know what's in there, but it's weird and it's pissed off''