X is an unknown number, and the unknown is the space to play; X also only represents an unknown number, which is presented as a single unit; X may also have infinitely many solutions, depending on the function equation itself. In the film, X is Danny's brother, Edward Norton (Edward Norton) played Derek Vinyard, and the functional equation is "American history".
After starting the homework, Danny found that X seemed extremely elusive. In his mind, this X has always been a certain value, a great symbol, and when he returned, X had a new value for a time, faintly pointing to a new solution, which made him puzzled and uneasy. . Out of homework requirements and out of inner curiosity, he tried to find out the evolution of X, and Derek also sadly told him about his prison life in the past three years.
When a value satisfies the unknown requirement of one equation, it may not be true in another equation. The unknown itself does not carry a value, but is assigned a value by a function equation.
When the barriers between races have become entrenched, any point of excitation will divide people into different groups and camps, and drag them into the abyss of hatred. The history of the United States itself is a huge function of hatred. Any unknowns in it can easily be thrown off the natural trajectory of survival and fall into a fixed skin color quadrant. Since then, disputes and raging have been everywhere.
However, people are unknown, and only unknown. Any unknown does not naturally belong to a certain function, he can choose, he can become. So as a person, as an unknown, what is his basic value? Is it after being thrown into a certain function, and since then admitting that this is a destiny, a mysterious revelation, an unresistible survival situation, or is it to ask myself a question, a simple, correct but difficult to face: "Has anything you've done made your life better?"
I believe that the so-called big crimes and evils are often big sufferings and weaknesses. Not looking at things, slashing with a knife is just instinct to survive; inferiority is small, hurting sentient beings just to forget oneself. Human nature is good, just as at the end of the film, Danny, who was a victim of another hate function, picked up the following sentence as the end of his "American History X" report:
'We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained, it must not break our bonds of affection. The mystic chords of memory will swell when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of our nature.' , Should not be the enemy. The momentary enthusiasm, unable to break through the emotional involvement. The angelic kindness of our nature will eventually pick up the strings of mysterious memory, and the most beautiful music will also play from there.")
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