Berserk Button: O-Dog might have spared the Asian Store-Owner (keyword being might) if he hadn't said he felt sorry for O-Dog's mother.Watch as he struggles with car jackings, murdered friends, taking care of a single mother ( Jada Pinkett) and her son, and a question that burns in the back of his mind, asked by his grandfather: "Do you care whether you live or die?" That answer doesn't come until it's too late. After graduating high school, a feat that none of his friends pulled off, he had choices to make, and although his heart was in the right place, he was stuck in the wrong time. Jackson) that dealt heroin and a mother ( Khandi Alexander) who was addicted to it, he had no chance as a child, and went to live with his grandparents. Caine is a thug with a heart, and the opportunity to succeed, if the streets will let him. The story centers around a street life thug named Caine (Tyrin Turner) and his friend O-Dog ( Larenz Tate) living in the streets of Watts. Along with Boyz n the Hood, it is one of the defining films of the early '90s and helped popularize the urban crime drama and the Hood Film. The film was written and directed by twenty-one-year-old twin brothers whose theme of anger and despair prevails throughout.Menace II Society is a 1993 urban drama Hood Film directed by the Hughes Brothers (in their debut). The film’s focus is on the intensity of the new urban black and his contempt and hatred for his own race as opposed to targeting other races. The film presents a realistic, violent look at the darker side of every urban neighborhood. The father says, “If Allah makes him a better man than Jesus, then I’m all for it.” Christianity is portrayed as a nuisance and a crutch for the grandparents. In one scene, Caine questions a friend’s father about Allah. The movie is a continuous cycle of numbing episodes full of moral carnage and sociological explanations. We are introduced to his circle of “gang-member” friends and his girlfriend. Following their deaths, Caine lives with his Christian grandparents. Caine, the young black man, narrates his story, telling of his drug-user mother and alcoholic father, both now dead. Set in the Watts district of Los Angeles, the story chronicles a young black man’s life using a documentary-like approach complete with anecdotes that depict the futility of urban ghetto gang life.
MENACE II SOCIETY is a bleak, violent, despairing look at a young black man’s life from the time he is born to his violent death.
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