The film I choose is title “ Boyz n the Hood” Directed by John Singleton.
The plot of the movie is about ten-year-old Tre Styles who lives with his single mother in the hoods of Inglewood, California. This African American director this movie based on this story, and this movie end up being one of the top-grossing feature ever made by an African American director.
The Cast of the film are Cuba Gooding, Jr (Tre systles) who is the main character of the movie and the movie is about his life. Tre is very intelligent but yet immature and disrespectful kid. After a call from his teacher in school to his mother, Tre is sent to live in the Crenshaw neighborhood of south central los angles with his father. His mother hopes that he will learn value of life from his father. When he moves to Crenshaw he reunites with his friends Darrin “Doughboy” Baker aka Ice cube, and Doughboy’s half brother Ricky Baker.
One day he hears his father shooting at a burglar who tried robbing their house. But when they called the cops, the officers took
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In certain neighbors in this country, for example the south side of Chicago, you can see very big similarities in this movie. Such us black on black crime, and we can also talk about the black lives matter movement. As most people would say how come black lives doesn’t matter when other black people kill other black people. In my opinion, to understand this concept you have to look in the big depth of why are they been killed. A black life doesn’t matter when other black people are killed them, because violence of one another can occurred anytime without cause. But when those who suppose to protect people are killing them. In everyday news we see what happens to certain black people, because the fact of their skin, it use to happen before but we notice because of technology and cops are been observed now a
Although the movie does seem to want to get a point across about racism being relevant even in mainly black neighborhoods, it mostly furthers society’s institutionalized racist thoughts towards the black
The positive school which include the concepts of eugenic criminology, ID, Ego, Superego, modeling theory, mesomorph and positive reinforcement I believe explains the criminality in the film exceptionally well. The film begins when their still children and all but Tre has a father figure around. Although Tre’s parents are separated his father Furious takes him in from his mother Reva. There
The relevance of these cases the victims were black, and police have caused the death of the black people. Why do these problems still
Towards the beginning of this movie, many blacks were looking at the white men with hatred for raping and nearly killing a ten year old black girl. The men transformed the innocent little girl’s life forever. The men were instantly
Raising the question of morality is essential to the works of a good anti-hero. The framework of a sufficiently run society is based on the principles built behind good moral and judgement of the people. The McMannus brothers, from The Boondock Saints, epitomize raising the doubt of morality. The two Irish-Catholic brothers from Boston serve as vigilantes whom believe are shepards sent from God. Connor and Murphy McMannus take the utilitarian approach by taking the judgement of the law into their own hands.
There has been so many cases of law officials attacking and even killing young black males based on their ‘suspicions’ of illegal and violent activities. For example: Trayvon Martin, Michael Brown, Eric Garner and many others have all fallen victim to racial profiling by the police. Another example the movie ‘Fruitvale Station’ which was based on a true story, some black males had an altercation on the train and got off when the police were alerted. Although, they were guilty, all the police saw were black people who immediately fit their profile of crime suspects. So, without question, they were arrested and one was shot and died on the spot.
John Singleton’s film, Boyz N the Hood, displays the challenging upbringing of adolescents who have to live with harsh conditions around not only their home but also their surrounding town. The film compares the differences between the lifestyles of Tre Styles and his friends’, Darren and Ricky Baker. Darren and Ricky are half-brothers who are nothing alike. Singleton demonstrates the importance of male leadership in a home in the ghetto of Los Angeles by comparing the difference between the lifestyles of Tre and his friends. While many adolescents in the hood have close friendships, some form close relationships by assembling gangs and create a world of violence due to alcohol abuse, which together ultimately breeds discrimination.
For example, sanitation workers had to carry bags of garbage that had holes in them and since they were paid low wages, they ended up poor on welfare. Not only was this film was a way of seeing another turning point during the civil rights movement but also, African Americans fighting for justice. Even though I was not born during that time, I can understand how they felt because it wasn’t that easy. In today’s society racism isn’t as bad as what it was during that time. Besides we still have times were we face racism in our lives so I would say in some areas racism is still a
It's a very emotional movie that evoked strong reactions from its audience, including me who cried multiple times throughout the movie. I believe it hit all of the targets of the life of a Black individual in America, and helped its non-black viewers better understand the struggles that we face. As a Black individual in America, I can relate to the experiences and challenges depicted in The Hate U Give. Additionally, it's helped me understand how to act, and what to do in the case of racial profiling and encounters with law enforcement. It's taught me to be vigilant, know my rights, and advocate for justice in the
The movie “Boyz N’ the Hood” is a story centered on the issues that are seen in the urban areas of Los Angeles every day. Tre (the main character) is raised in a way that seems to be correct but he still ends up being a part of criminal activity. While watching this film in an academic setting it is easy to see the social and political reform messages that are being communicated to the audience. On the political side it is easy to see the race and ethnicity of the film maker while on the social side the audience can tell the filmmaker is spreading a message. All together “Boyz N’ the Hood” is a very good film that depicts the type of stuff that happens in the poorer parts of Los Angeles.
Boyhood is a 2014 American drama film directed and written by Richard Linklater. It is a coming of age story. The film was created over 12-year span with the same people. It includes among 2002-2013. Basically, the movie is about a young boy named Mason and his family.
In particular I believe the writer focuses more on Tre Styles and his point of view. Those that viewed this movie got to witness how racism, violence, gangs, and growing up in the hood shaped the future of all three boys. The movie starts out in the year 1984 focusing on Tre Styles and how his behavior in school forces his mom to take him to live with his father. His father has more strict rules in his home and his mother believes that he needs his dad in his life to turn him and shape him into a young mature man. Tre immediately reunites with his childhood friends Ricky and Darrin and they spend time catching up.
Boyhood embodies coming of age where the director Richard Linklater with Mason Junior, Olivia (Mason’s mother), Mason senior (Mason’s father and Olivia’s ex-husband), Samantha (Mason’s sister) builds an emotional saga which enumerates individual emotions and relationships. Linklater made film history by shooting the motion picture for 4-5 days (consistently) for the traverse of 12 years just to draw out the progression of time. Boyhood is an intimate movie which covers relationships between children and parents, adolescence, and child psychology, and further exemplifies the development of a six year old boy to an eighteen year old man, where the characters go through a series of emotional and physical changes, Mason’s voice drops, he grows taller, his parents grow older, you can feel the adolescence oozing out of the two
The film starts out with an African American man walking in the suburbs. He sees a car and is frightened. A person in a hood strangles him from behind and kidnaps him. This illustrates the fear African Americans have in a white society. The movie then fasts forwards to New York City and turns the focus on Chris who is a successful young photographer.
What I mean is a African American may view this film as a means to diminish their culture, a white person may believe this film makes them look evil and a police officer may believe this film makes officers look like they are above the law or feel like they should be above the law. These differences can cause conflict when