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The Believer
2001 · Film · 98 min
Directed by Henry Bean
A hardcore US racist skinhead who, because of his intelligence, leads a gang dedicated to fighting the enemy: the supposed American-Jewish conspiracy for domination. However, he's hiding a secret: he's Jewish-born, a brilliant scholar whose questioning of the tenets of his faith has left him angry and confused, turning against those who he thinks have a tragic history of their own making.
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looking forward to this movie, hasn't seen him in really good movie where he would play lead since TPBTP though not sure I liked TPBTP more than Drive, Half Nelson, The United States of Leland or The Believer (2001)
Example of a neonazi who isn't white [1]. The Believer (2001, with Ryan Gosling) is a decent fictional movie about how this could work [2], and I also liked Rompen Stomper (1992, with Russell Crowe) [3] and La Haine (French for 'the hate', 1995, with Vincent Cassel) [4] about the phenomenon in general but there's likely more recent, good material as well as non-fiction available. I also had a colleague student who was IMO racist, but he was himself what we in NL call halfbloedje (in this case: mother black, father white, divorced).
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michiel_Smit
[2] https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0247199/
[2] https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0105275/
[3] https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0113247/
Reminds me of the movie The Believer https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Believer_(film) but in that case the Jewish neo-nazi wasn't a spam king, and really he killed himself in a very round about way.
This makes me think of the movie The Believer.
reminiscent of the The Believer https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Believer_(film)
"For the last few days, CNN has been promoting an episode of Believer with the title “City of the Dead,” and showing footage of corpses being burnt on the banks of the River Ganga."
"Ganga" means something very different to English-language readers.