'Boyz N the Hood' review

'Boyz N the Hood' is a torrid coming of age, set in poverty-ravaged Los Angeles overrun with gangs, drugs and automatic weapons. the core of the film's narrative was the interactions between three young Black males: Tre Styles, Darrin 'Doughboy' Baker and Ricky Baker. The audience is thrown into the racism, indifference, rampant violence and exposed to the some disunion of the family in the film. Also, the film presents how the variables hinder the the coming of age of the young males. Something which struck me, in the film, was the significance to exhibit how current economic structure, capitalism in America (and globally) is harmful to everyone, especially Black people living in low-income conditions. These typical stereotypes of a broken family and characters turning to crime immersed me immensely. To think, on its 25th anniversary, we have to look now, have we moved on from these negative stereotypes, discourage racial profiling or cease the damaging impacts of gentrification on some of the poorest people. The state of engrossment by the viewing in the Everyman cinema, with the surround sound system, encased me with sounds of the constant helicopter above our heads, the light chatter of the children outside and also the deafening noise of bullets coursing next to us. 'Boyz N the Hood' is really an almighty look back at 1990's black film renaissance.