Antiheroes In Movies That We Can’t Help But Love

Derek Vinyard – American History X

American History X opens up with a horrific sequence that leaves the audience shocked and sickened by the actions of Derek Vinyard. What he does can be understood as an unforgivable act even as the film follows his path of retribution. Although he may have seemed to have turned his life around or is trying his best, we are constantly reminded through flashbacks of all of the deplorable things he had said and done in the past. Yet, it’s the combination of these that make him the perfect antihero. By no means would you ever want to be (or have been) like Derek Vineyard, but you respect the great lengths and personal struggles he endures to try and make it right again.