Skin

Skin" is a good movie about fractured race relations, a problem plaging the US for hundreds of years. It is a small story about huge themes and feeling gritty, raw and unseemly. Bell rightfully dominates and carries the picture and Vera Farmiga delivers the best performance as Babs' adoptive mom Shareen. The kind of ation is such to achieve a level of reality to the unfolding drama. Bryon is the focal point of the feature, and the script follows his daily experience in the Vinlanders Social Club, where Hammer rules through practiced hate speech and intimidation, creating a community of skinheads willing to murder those they perceive as American invaders. The story details at first Bryon's horrifying experience in these hatred dominated ambiances, then it shows gradually the redemption process. Overall effective scenese and everything seeming genuinly true.

I found this movie on BluRay at my public library. My wife chose not to view it.

The core story is based on a real person who got caught up in the Racist Skinheads, starting as a 14-yr-old, thus the title "Skin." At some point, after he got in with a mother and her children, he decided to leave it, reform his life, and have all his facial tattoos removed, a process that took a year and a half and 24 separate painful treatments. He was instrumental in getting convictions for a number of outlaws in the movement.

Jamie Bell is really good as Bryon Widner, most of the other characters are fictional, perhaps inspired by real people in his life. The movie paints a very dark and dangerous picture of white supremacists, often difficult to watch but important to understand.

This film tells the story of a young man who exits a racist organisation.

It's a remarkable true story, one that deserves to be seen by a wider audience. Acting is great, particularly Byron and his wife.

I have no idea why this is being compared to American history x . This is a true story about a real person coming to realize his choices have made him hate the Skin he lived in. Powerful performance by Jamie Bell he is amazing

This is worth a watch. It's certainly not Oscar worthy nor a one star crap. I know the story and they did take a few liberties with it, but none that really change the heart of it. The acting was good as was the cinematography which aptly conveyed the bleak realities of a hate group in the middle of a rust belt winter, whether belonging to one or trying to extricate yourself from one. It's a good movie. To me the worst thing was that nerve wracking, heavy metal cello they threw in at odd times. Definitely way low marks for the soundtrack.