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Release Date: 06 March, 2001 Retail Price: $19.98 Sorry, this product is not currently available. Cast: Complete Cast (10 total) |
Boyz 'N the Hood Reviews
Excellent Movie With a Strong Message
Boyz n the Hood was one of the most important movies of the 1990's. It is both an excellent movie about life in the mean streets of the inner city as well as a reinforcer of the moral values needed to turn around the situation in Urban America where youth gangs run rampant. During the course of the story, it offers much needed commentary on the
situation that young people find themselves in and how they can get out of it.
At the start of the movie there is a subtitle that says "One out of every 21 black males will be murdered in his lifetime, most will be killed at the hands of another black male." If anything, that fact is even worse today. Most flicks today that are about the inner city crime scene have taken many of their concepts from this film, but many of these
films today are all shoot `em up movies that have no morality, strong plot or serious social message.
The setting of this flick is South Central L.A.: Where murder rates are five times the nationwide average, or in absolute figures, double the entire U.S.'s death rate for breast cancer. Over the past two decades the Los Angeles Police Department has accumulated a backlog of 4,400 unsolved homicides - roughly 3/4ths of the city's total.
This gripping tale evolves around a single black father, Furious Styles (Laurence Fishburne), raising his one and only son, Tré Styles (Cuba Gooding Jr.), and installing in him the values to help him become a man. This is an important point that director John Singleton took time to illustrate since the majority of men in the black community are often raised by their single mothers. The values that Furious Styles instills in Tre are generally not portrayed in most movies today.
Essentially, Boyz n the Hood is a movie about peace. Its message is that violence isn't the answer, and this movie shows the effects of violence being what residents of the inner city all too frequently resorts to when there are other alternatives available.
The movie starts when Tre's mother sends him
to live with his father Jason, a/k/a "Furious", who
is much better equipped to raise a son in a neighborhood like this. The movie quickly moves forward seven years when seventeen year old Tre and his best friend Ricky about to graduate from high school, while
another friend Doughboy has already graduated - from
shoplifting to guns and small-time drug deals. And while Furious guides Tre towards moral choices, responsibility and self-respect, Doughboy and Ricky are raised by a mother who lacks the capacity to instill proper values and morals in her offspring.
The basic plot to Boyz n the Hood is can Tre avoid the crime and drug scene and live a normal, decent life? This is all the more challenging given all the crime and violence around him. Boyz n the Hoodis an excellent film that is a drama based on real human beings. It shows the
dire straits that folks in the South Central are in without being conscending or exploitative. Boyz n the Hood is a flick that is well written, acted and directed. The cinematography is stunning.
A modern classic for ALL races and ages!
This is truly a BRILLIANT movie in that it lets one have an unvarnished look into how the "real" hood is really like. For me (an Asian) this was nothing less than educational. I could see how individuals may be caught in a web of circumstances and locale (the hood) which they are powerless to escape or ignore. This is more than just a movie, it is a powerful statement by a visionary director that tears the stereotyes down, and exposes the humanity of the characters. When watching the movie, I could clearly relate to the characters and feel their pain and anguish --- these were not just thugs and criminals from a poor neighborhood, but humans with hopes, feelings and aspirations, just like you and me. What more can I say, except: BRAVO!
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