If you do not know what to watch tonight on Netflix, take a chance and discover Boyz’n the Hood, an important work of social African-American cinema of the 90s.
Boyz’n the Hood, subtitled “Street Law,” became a cult film of the ’90s over the years. But if many know the title that the ice cube has signed. On the soundtrack Or the name of a rap group NWA, This memorable film seems to be gradually being forgotten. However, here it is available on Netflix, ready to see a new audience.
In the south-central Los Angeles ghetto, we follow Tre (Cuba Gooding Jr.), who is expelled from school for starting a fight, as well as his two friends Rick (coming to the university chairs he plays). Morris Chestnut) and Doughboy, the culprit (played by Ice Cube).
The film begins with a group of children who are exposed to violence in their neighborhood. They go to a bloody alley before going to school because a man was recently killed. On the way, one of them says that his two brothers have already received gunshot wounds. The tone is set, the south central is a dangerous and violent place.
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It is clear that director John Singleton (then barely 22 years old) did not want to make a film that multiplied shootings, but rather made people understand that violence is everywhere on a daily basis in this area, sometimes without a shot being fired. Released. To indicate without display, he uses, for example, the character of Chris, who was confined to a wheelchair after the attack. It also passes on to parents of children who are afraid of the future and even of saving their offspring.
Boyz’n The Hood is often compared to the second feature film released two years later, the Menace II Society. The latter clearly depicts drug trafficking and violence, while Boyz’n The Hood shows little of this aspect (except for the last third), instead emphasizing the difficult father-son relationship (a complex father embodied in justice by Lawrence Fishburne) and the fate of Teres not ending in crime. .
Tre (Cuba Gooding Jr.) and Doughboy (Ice Cube)
Pioneering the 90s African-American public screen, following in the footsteps of social film revived by Spike Lee, Do The Right Thing, Boyz’n The Hood will be the highest grossing American film of the year. 1991, which proves that he knew how to reach a very large community and deserves to be discovered for all these reasons without further delay.
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