Romper Stomper (1992) review

Incensed that individuals from Thailand are buying up areas of Melbourne previously occupied by Caucasians, local neo-Nazis led by Hitler-loving Hando (Russell Crowe), his epileptic girlfriend Gabrielle (Jacqueline McKenzie) and pal Davey (Daniel Pollock) violently attack them (and retreat when they're outnumbered), have their warehouse burned down and go on the run.  It pre-dates Trainspotting with its filth and grimy atmosphere (that I'm assuming smells like a combination of burnt tobacco, stale beer, urine and body odor), but virtually every scene is of someone (or something) getting beaten to a pulp or smashed to pieces - the heaps of violence are there in place of an attempt to understand why some people become so filled with hate for anyone who isn't the same "color" as them (aside from the usual platitudes about the "purity of the white race").  For Crowe, it is a ferocious star-making role - in an interview with GQ, he said that he had "at least a dozen conversations with directors in Los Angeles" who were convinced he actually was a skinhead who "had been discovered on the streets."