Coming straight out of Compton, the famous rapper known as Ice Cube depicted how many African Americans, as himself, faced many hardships growing up in the 80’s and 90’s in the film, “Boyz N The Hood.” Believing that only his father can teach him how to be a man, the main character, Cuba Gooden starring as Tre Styles, is sent to go live with his father in South Central Los Angelos after an altercation at school.Here is reunited with his childhood friends;Ice Cube staring as Doughboy and Doughboy’s brother Morris Chestnut starring as Ricky. Throughout the movie, the three experience police brutality, racial discrimination, and black on black crime while growing up in the hood. Critic Roger Ebert emphasizes that the three, including many other
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Setting an objective tone for the movie, it begins with two informative quotes as the opening credits. “Out of every twenty-one black American males will be murdered in their lifetime.” “Most will die at the hands of another black male.” Even in today’s society, many African Americans are killing one another.In the movie,after Tre and Ricky finish taking an ACT test, Tre’s dad informs the two and a few other blacks in the community on why many black communities are so low in poverty and why many black on black crimes occur. Asking a rhetorical question, he implies, “Why is it a gun shop on every corner in this community?” “Same reason why it 's a liquor store on every street.” “Why, because they want us to kill ourselves.” “You go out to Beverly Hills, you don 't see that shit.” Instead of providing black communities with shopping centers, grocery stores,libraries, etc., the only activity they have to participate in, is the killing and murdering of another or selling drugs “Every time you turn on the TV, it 's black people pushing, selling the rock, but that wasn 't a problem until it was here, until it showed up on Wall Street where there are hardly any black people.” “We don 't own any planes, we don 't own no ships.” “We are not the people flying that shit in here.” Tre’s dad is informing them that there were no drugs in America, until whites brought it over from across seas. At the time blacks did not have passports, accessed to planes or ships, therefore blacks selling drugs would have not been a problem, if it had not been brought to America in the first place. Sam Kashner stated in a Vanity Fair article that, “Critic Ebert saw that the needs to prove one’s manhood, in a neighborhood awash with guns, doomed young lives.” Similar to this statement, Tre’s dad says, “The best way you can destroy
Setting an objective tone for the movie, it begins with two informative quotes as the opening credits. “Out of every twenty-one black American males will be murdered in their lifetime.” “Most will die at the hands of another black male.” Even in today’s society, many African Americans are killing one another.In the movie,after Tre and Ricky finish taking an ACT test, Tre’s dad informs the two and a few other blacks in the community on why many black communities are so low in poverty and why many black on black crimes occur. Asking a rhetorical question, he implies, “Why is it a gun shop on every corner in this community?” “Same reason why it 's a liquor store on every street.” “Why, because they want us to kill ourselves.” “You go out to Beverly Hills, you don 't see that shit.” Instead of providing black communities with shopping centers, grocery stores,libraries, etc., the only activity they have to participate in, is the killing and murdering of another or selling drugs “Every time you turn on the TV, it 's black people pushing, selling the rock, but that wasn 't a problem until it was here, until it showed up on Wall Street where there are hardly any black people.” “We don 't own any planes, we don 't own no ships.” “We are not the people flying that shit in here.” Tre’s dad is informing them that there were no drugs in America, until whites brought it over from across seas. At the time blacks did not have passports, accessed to planes or ships, therefore blacks selling drugs would have not been a problem, if it had not been brought to America in the first place. Sam Kashner stated in a Vanity Fair article that, “Critic Ebert saw that the needs to prove one’s manhood, in a neighborhood awash with guns, doomed young lives.” Similar to this statement, Tre’s dad says, “The best way you can destroy