Sobering and incisive, this cautionary urban drama centers on 18-year-old Caine Lawson Tyrin Turner , a street tough facing a moral quandary while trying to turn his life around, aided by a pragmatic girlfriend Jada Pinkett Smith and a caring teacher Charles S. The Hughes Brother's movie charts the hapless life of Caine Tyrin Turner as he seeks to escape the ghetto. Tyrin Turner and Larenze Tate played great and believable roles. Ineviatbly comparisons were are drawn with John Singleton's 1991 film, Boyz n the Hood. The story is great, in some points resembling some greek tragedy, with a storyline used successfully in other movies like Carlito's Way, Goodfellas, American History X and many others. As the story progresses, and things spiral downward for Caine,he ends up in a hell of a jam and tries to make a way out of it all. It has a good message, and it has some very moving moments init.
I saw this film the weekend it opened. The great thing about this film other than the great acting is the captivating storyline and the fact that the director do sen't try and glorify violence or crime he portrays it in a way of the youngster Kaydee simply following what he was told from when he was a youngster and not knowing anything better than that. The acting was good, Tyrin Turner, I've never reallyheard of and Larenz Tate I've see in Dead Presidents. If you've seen any music video or film that they have directed, you can easily make the claim that they are the best at what they do - portraying life as for what it is. It deals with everything that is happening in the world with teens in the hood: Pregnancy, Drive-by's, Drug Addiction, and many other things. Anybody who thinks this represents the norm of what life in the ghetto is like for black teenagers has never lived there. Dutton, it seemed like a dull web of cliches.
I was offended at the time, when the studio tried to market this movie with Boyz in the Hood. Lady of Rage Official Video by SouthCentralChannel. His Grandparents love him, but they struggled to raisehim and tried their hardest to keep him out of trouble. Throughout the film, Caine and O-Dog Larenz Tate commit numerous crimes. But after pushing play, I was waiting impatiently for it to end. He is more like the jerks we see in Goodfellas, Casino, and that Great American Epic, The Godfather.
. It also showed us Tre played by Cuba Gooding, Jr. Jackson plays Caine's junkie father, and Larenz Tate is a standout as hair-trigger homeboy O-Dog. I'm white, and I don't live in the projects, but I know that black people don't do these sort of things, only the ones in Hollywood do. But then again, I don't think that really mattered. It shows what it is really like for teenagers growing up in the ghetto.
He grows up with a caring father Laurence Fishburne and it also shows him with his friends, many of whom are doomed to the legacy of street violence. I applaud the Hughes Brothers for making a movie that is able to connect with so many people. Easily the most realistic of all the ghetto films made, in fact the film at times feels like we are on a documentary drive around downtown Watts. This movie may reflect a few people's lives, but if you can identify with it, you should be in prison rather than watching this movie. After loosing hisparents on at the hands of drugs, he was sent to live with hisGrandparents.
Just look at anything they've done and you notice how frighteningly realistic their subject matter is. Now look at their music videos. Not too long into the movie, after we learn about Caine's early life,we see him graduate from High School. There are brutal beatings as well as bloody shootings, all shot much better than your average action-movie. I found no sympathy in the main character, Caine. The story focuses on Caine brilliantly played by Tyrin Turner and his life after graduating from high school.
This is an incredible movie. But for those who do watch it I hope you get the message. Can Caine rise above the entrapments of the 'hood? But, as the movie progressed, I got absorbed in it. What I like about this film, is that it is exactly what it's supposed to be. How else can you show violence in a movie without it looking completely fake? Of course everyone won't get this movie.
It has a good message, and it has some very moving moments init. The relevance here is not the band itself, but the Hughes Brothers direction. Caine narrates thestory of his life, explaining how after the riots, drugs came intoeffect, and affected his home life as a child. There was some flaws but the movie makes it out like therereally isn't any. Itdidn't take long for them to realize that we wouldn't be goinganywhere. In heartbreaking detail the main characters narrate us through youth criminality, drug-dealing, racism and a lot of other nasty stuff. What I like about this film, is that it is exactly what it's supposed to be.
The son of both a drug dealer Samuel L. Extremely brutal, but gripping and compelling story of a volatile, alienated young teenager Turner growing up in the violent atmosphere of the L. When I saw this in the theatre I wasn't impressed. This was a chilling way to open the movie, asit shows how easy it is for someone in the ghetto to get caught up inthe moment and kill someone. The two movies are completely different.