Who actually watched this movie and became less “racist” at the end?
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=dXxI5UN46F8&fbclid=IwAR03KE_syodEvQdx2NhIdQspGBMzVQcxIN8XxuIWL-wGXuccF2nT1_RzB74
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=vU9mI4fkiDo
These two scenes negate everything that happened in the end. The entire third act is wholly unrealistic. Even if the fellow skinheads were tired of his moralizing and preaching...there’s no way they would have risked internal civil war by gang raping a high ranking guy in the movement just because he was “preachy” about their values. He had like 18 months left in his sentence...they would have bit the bullet and simply waited him out, go back to regular business once he got released. But the writers probably realized that they made Derek as too sympathetic a character and his views were making too much sense, so they needed some drastic plot technique to make him “change his ways.” To justify why he would even think of doing so.
And what did it get him in the end? That “change.” His little brother got killed by a black gangbanger. So much for his “redemption.”
There’s even a deleted scene at the end after his brothers death where Derek is staring at himself in the mirror and as the scene fades to black the sound of a buzz cutter is heard. They didn’t want that kind of ending. Too truthful and too realistic. So they went for the “Hollywood” ending.