The media source selected was a movie. The title of the movie was “Menace II Society”. This film was released in 1993 and was directed by Albert and Allen Hughes. The movie is based on the lifestyle of Watts in 1993. The main character of the film is Caine, an 18 year-old African American male that narrates the story in the film. The movie began with a video of the 1965 Watts riots and then gravitated to Watts in the late 1970s. During this time, Caine was just a kid, and was surrounded by drugs and parties. Caine said his father was a drug dealer and his mother was a drug addict. Caine witnessed his father kill people. When Caine was 10 years-old, his dad died in a drug deal and his mother also died from drug use. Caine believed this is was
