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Boyz ‘n the hood – film review
South Central Los Angeles – setting and also the place where the young director and writer of “Boyz ‘n the hood”, John Singleton grew up. The movie was released in 1991 and tells the story about three black youths -Tre Styles (Cuba Gooding Jr.) and his friends Dough Boy (http://rogerebert.suntimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/…ToDate=20101231Ice Cube) and Ricky (Morris Chestnut) - in 1984. The first what you can hear are the sounds of helicopters, the police and shootings – things which describe their life in a so called “black hood” very well. The movie starts with a scene where the young friends, maybe even nine or ten years old, are talking about a shooting which was last night. They are one the way to see the victim. The violence and criminality seems to be unavoidable.
After a fight in the school, the young Tre is going to live with his father, Furious (Laurence Fishburne), which has a job and in the opinion of the mother (Angela Bassett), could bring Tre “on the right way” and teach him how to be responsible.
Besides the violence, the life in the hood is also affected by social and family problems, drugs and poverty. Tre’s best friends Ricky and Doughboy grow up fatherless and don’t have much parental control. Doughboy is a pudgy, belligerent boy, who often gets in trouble. His mother prefers Ricky, the younger, athletic brother of Dough Boy.
Then the action jumps and proceeds 7 years later, in the year 1991. There is a reintroducing of the characters. Tre tries to go to university and live a life away from the problems in the hood. Ricky and Dough Boy still live with their mom, but Ricky has a son now and is a very good athlete, who seems to have a chance to get a college football scholarship. Dough Boy spends most of his days outside with his Clique, in front of the house. He drinks a lot, a loaded gun is always in his trousers – ready for the worst.
After Ricky was shot, without any reason, the main character Tre gets in a kind of personal crisis, he has an emotional collapse. Now he has to choose between revenge and ruining his future or follow the words his father had told him, when he was young. The choice of being part of the violence or being not.
Tre joins Doughboy and his friends, to go and revenge Ricky’s death, but half the way Tre decides return home. Dough Boy and his avenge Ricky’s murder.
The next morning Dough Boy is walking with Tre and tells him, that he could be the next, who could be shot, like his brother.
The end titles reveal that Tre went to a collage with his girlfriend Brandi and that Doughboy, was murdered two weeks later – like he has suspected it.
I liked the movie, because it showed the problems existing in hoods realistic. My point of view is that this is not only because of the “black englisch” and the typical “ghetto language”, which even the kids used, but also because of the good acting. It wasn’t just about drugs and violence. The movie showed different destinies and ways of living in a hood and also more than the “ghetto stereotypes”.
“Boyz ‘n the hood” was nominated for Best director and Original Screenplay (Academy Awards in 1991). John Singleton was the youngest person ever nominated for Best director. In 1992 he won a MTV Movie Award for Best New Filmmaker.
The United States Library of Congress deemed the film "culturally significant" and selected it for preservation in the National Film Registry.
Danke.