Select a film that you have found interesting/stimulating & enjoyable - Using appropriate supporting evidence, explore its possible impact on cultural identity and consider why it might have this effect.
Select a film that u have found interesting/stimulating & of enjoyable. Using appropriate supporting evidence, explore its possible impact on cultural identity and consider why it might have this effect.
The Hughes Brothers have laid groundwork with films such as ‘Boyz in the Hood’ and ‘Straight out of Brooklyn’ and the Hughes brothers tell a tale of urban violence in America's black communities. ‘Menace 2 Society’ involves a group of friends in the chaotic environment of Watts. The narrative revolves around the anti-hero Caine, a small time drug dealer, who was raised by his devoutly religious grandparents because his mother died of a heroin overdose and his father was killed in a drug deal when Caine was a young child.
The film opens with Caine and his closest friend O-Dog (Larenz Tate) attempting to purchase some malt liquor at a Korean-run convenience store. As soon as they enter the store, the proprietors have the young black men under dogged surveillance, fearful of their possible intentions. Resentful of the Korean store owners' antagonistic perceptions, O-Dog quickly escalates into explosive violence upon hearing one shopkeeper jeeringly state, "I feel sorry for your mother." So begins the cataclysmic venture of Caine and his pals, each scene punctuated with machismo and brutal violence, seemingly engendered by the surrounding social circumstances.
