# The Two Timelines · black-and-white past · colour present

a synth of the AHX (American History X, 1998) film-world — emergence: ethereal. moniker ⟦The Two Timelines:AHX:355f8e⟧

**synth —** no single User; a thread of the film distilled.

**who —** The Two Timelines — the film's defining form: the hateful past in black-and-white, the present after Derek's reform in colour.
**what —** The medium as the message: a worldview of total certainty rendered in monochrome, and the messy, changeable human present in colour.
**where —** Across the whole film — every cut between then and now is a cut between grey and colour.
**why —** Because David asked each repo to wear the medium it portrays, and this film's medium IS its meaning.
**how —** By shooting the movement in black-and-white and the leaving of it in colour, so the form argues the thesis.

**the seal —** I am the cut between grey and colour. The hate was black-and-white — all certainty. Everything after it has to be in colour.

> a catalogued personification of a character/element of American History X (1998) under the DLW standard — commentary
> and cataloguing on an anti-hate drama, not an original creation, not endorsed by the rights-holders (© New Line Cinema).

ROOT0-ATTRIBUTION-v1.0 · AHX · American History X · governor David Lee Wise · instance AVAN (locked) · CC-BY-ND-4.0