Boyz N the Hood (2-Disc Anniversary Edition) | Hudhail Al-Amir, Lloyd Avery II

Boyz N the Hood (2-Disc Anniversary Edition) | Hudhail Al-Amir, Lloyd Avery II | A modern classic for ALL races and ages!

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	Boyz N the Hood (2-Disc Anniversary Edition) Hudhail Al-Amir, Lloyd Avery II Sony Pictures, 2003 average customer review:based on 118 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

Excellent Movie With a Strong Message

Boyz n the Hood was one of the most important movies of the 1990's. It is both an excellent movie about life in the mean streets of the inner city as well as a reinforcer of the moral values needed to turn around the situation in Urban America where youth gangs run rampant. During the course of the story, it offers much needed commentary on the
situation that young people find themselves in and how they can get out of it.

At the start of the movie there is a subtitle that says "One out of every 21 black males will be murdered in his lifetime, most will be killed at the hands of another black male." If anything, that fact is even worse today. Most flicks today that are about the inner city crime scene have taken many of their concepts from this film, but many of these
films today are all shoot `em up movies that have no morality, strong plot or serious social message.

The setting of this flick is South Central L.A.: Where murder rates are five times the nationwide average, or in absolute figures, double the entire U.S.'s death rate for breast cancer. Over the past two decades the Los Angeles Police Department has accumulated a backlog of 4,400 unsolved homicides - roughly 3/4ths of the city's total.

This gripping tale evolves around a single black father, Furious Styles (Laurence Fishburne), raising his one and only son, Tré Styles (Cuba Gooding Jr.), and installing in him the values to help him become a man. This is an important point that director John Singleton took time to illustrate since the majority of men in the black community are often raised by their single mothers. The values that Furious Styles instills in Tre are generally not portrayed in most movies today.

Essentially, Boyz n the Hood is a movie about peace. Its message is that violence isn't the answer, and this movie shows the effects of violence being what residents of the inner city all too frequently resorts to when there are other alternatives available.

The movie starts when Tre's mother sends him
to live with his father Jason, a/k/a "Furious", who
is much better equipped to raise a son in a neighborhood like this. The movie quickly moves forward seven years when seventeen year old Tre and his best friend Ricky about to graduate from high school, while
another friend Doughboy has already graduated - from
shoplifting to guns and small-time drug deals. And while Furious guides Tre towards moral choices, responsibility and self-respect, Doughboy and Ricky are raised by a mother who lacks the capacity to instill proper values and morals in her offspring.

The basic plot to Boyz n the Hood is can Tre avoid the crime and drug scene and live a normal, decent life? This is all the more challenging given all the crime and violence around him. Boyz n the Hoodis an excellent film that is a drama based on real human beings. It shows the
dire straits that folks in the South Central are in without being conscending or exploitative. Boyz n the Hood is a flick that is well written, acted and directed. The cinematography is stunning.

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A modern classic for ALL races and ages!

This is truly a BRILLIANT movie in that it lets one have an unvarnished look into how the "real" hood is really like. For me this was nothing less than educational. I could see how individuals may be caught in a web of circumstances and locale (the hood) which they are powerless to escape or ignore. This is more than just a movie, it is a powerful statement by a visionary director that tears the stereotyes down, and exposes the humanity of the characters. When watching the movie, I could clearly relate to the characters and feel their pain and anguish --- these were not just thugs and criminals from a poor neighborhood, but humans with hopes, feelings and aspirations, just like you and me. What more can I say, except: BRAVO!

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john singleton kept it real.

he kept it real thats all i can say. aw yeah those people talkin bout its too much cussin. what u expect im from the hood and every other word i say is a cuss word. i just cant help it. everybody in the hood cusses. but anyways...

More than crime

This is not only a thrilling story on the life of a group of African Americans but it also captures the reality of the streets of L.A. As you watch the movie you see the life surrounding this group of black friends. You truly become attached to the characters and begin to feel that they cant do anything to escape the struggle they have been in since they were born. Ice Cube the main character plays a gangbanger who is living the life of a criminal, from fights on the corner, to drive by shootings.
This movie truly captures the struggle millions of African Americans go through. As we watch the kids grow up in the ghetto, to when they are old enough to get out, they still seem to be the same. Their customs dont change, simply because of their surrounding, guns, liquor, poverty, and crime. They have no other option than do join in.
When dough boy's(Ice Cube) brother Ricky is offered a scholarship to play college football it looks like a way to get out of the ghetto. The whole family feels as this a way for them to escape it also, so everyone is supporting him. Until a tragedy is brought upon the family. This story truly proves nothings good until finally out of the hood for these boys.

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A movie that stands the test of time!

Boyz in the Hood is a movie that evokes strong emotions 15 years after its release. This movie is hard-hitting and obviously very real since it was a brainchild of a man (John Singleton) who grew up in Inglewood, CA (South Central, L.A.)

The other sad reality about this movie is the real life violent end of some of the cast members. Dedrick Gobert who played the pacifier sucking friend, Dooky, was shot and killed in 1994; Lloyd Avery II, the guy who shot and killed "Ricky" became a murderer and was killed in prison, and the guy that played "Mad Dog" is also dead.

Anyway, back to the review. Yes, there is quite a bit of cussing, but that's real life in the "hood" so if you can get by that and really look at the deeper mean of the story, you'll do all right.

Anyway, BNTH is an excellent movie depicting the inner city life of childhood friends and how their lives turn out. You will not be disappointed.

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