Growth and getting older is something that is as inevitable as death in this life. It is not up to us whether we will grow in age, but we can control how we embrace our lives and grow to develop a personality and a community as well. It is a well-known fact that life can be tough and discouraging especially if you grow up in a hostile environment that promotes gang violence, has a lack of education, and being a minority in a nation where stereotyping is acceptable. One movie director decided to capture, recreate, and tell this story so those who do not know the lives of those who endure these hardships live every day. John Singleton a African American screenwriter from the University of Southern California (a.k.a USC) and director recreated
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The movie deals with issues such as the importance of a father/ role model in a young man’s life, the violence of black on black crimes, and how African Americans in their community are placed in situations where they are set up for failure. John Singleton’s ideals of the social problems in South Central Los Angeles is told in a emotional story about three friends growing up together in the same neighborhood. Doughboy and Ricky are half-brothers and have totally different personalities. Ricky, who is a football star is hopeful to earn a scholarship to college and make it out of the neighborhood. However, Doughboy is a young man who plays the role of the thug and embraces the community’s vices. He is involved in violence and drug usage adopting the stereotypical gangbanger. Finally, there is the friend of the boys Tre, who unlike many others in his neighborhood has a father and role model to teach him what is right from wrong. Furious Styles, is the name of Tre’s father and he does everything in his power to prevent his son from taking on the path that the stereotype community sets for …show more content…
This quote reads “out of every twenty-one black American male will be murdered in their life time, most will die at the hands of another black male.” The director shows us those words not only because those are things that happen in the “ghetto” but because it is very accurate. According to the Bureau of Justice Statistics, as many as 9,000 African Americans are murdered annually in the United States.(NIJ) This chilling figure is accompanied by another equally sobering fact, that 93% of these murders are in fact perpetrated by other blacks.(NIJ) John Singleton also shows us that most black on black crime are not over things that cause a human to react with a vicious crime such us murder. The director shows us that most race wars happen over situations such us the gang affiliation, the way you look at another person, or jealousy. One of the saddest scenes throughout the movie that deals with black on black crime has to be at around a hour and a half into the movie where we see Ricky, the young promising football player, get shot and killed by another black male. The reason for Ricky’s death was because Ricky accidently bumped into this man at a car show. Another reason for such crimes is the hate African Americans display towards each
The movie deals with issues such as the importance of a father/ role model in a young man’s life, the violence of black on black crimes, and how African Americans in their community are placed in situations where they are set up for failure. John Singleton’s ideals of the social problems in South Central Los Angeles is told in a emotional story about three friends growing up together in the same neighborhood. Doughboy and Ricky are half-brothers and have totally different personalities. Ricky, who is a football star is hopeful to earn a scholarship to college and make it out of the neighborhood. However, Doughboy is a young man who plays the role of the thug and embraces the community’s vices. He is involved in violence and drug usage adopting the stereotypical gangbanger. Finally, there is the friend of the boys Tre, who unlike many others in his neighborhood has a father and role model to teach him what is right from wrong. Furious Styles, is the name of Tre’s father and he does everything in his power to prevent his son from taking on the path that the stereotype community sets for …show more content…
This quote reads “out of every twenty-one black American male will be murdered in their life time, most will die at the hands of another black male.” The director shows us those words not only because those are things that happen in the “ghetto” but because it is very accurate. According to the Bureau of Justice Statistics, as many as 9,000 African Americans are murdered annually in the United States.(NIJ) This chilling figure is accompanied by another equally sobering fact, that 93% of these murders are in fact perpetrated by other blacks.(NIJ) John Singleton also shows us that most black on black crime are not over things that cause a human to react with a vicious crime such us murder. The director shows us that most race wars happen over situations such us the gang affiliation, the way you look at another person, or jealousy. One of the saddest scenes throughout the movie that deals with black on black crime has to be at around a hour and a half into the movie where we see Ricky, the young promising football player, get shot and killed by another black male. The reason for Ricky’s death was because Ricky accidently bumped into this man at a car show. Another reason for such crimes is the hate African Americans display towards each