Saga of a group of childhood friends growing up in a Los Angeles ghetto.
Yep that's the whole summary courtesy of IMDb. But honestly I think that pretty much covers it. I actually watched this movie a while ago but due to the stress of exams and papers and presentations I haven't had time to actually blog about anything. But now I'm back and trying to catch up on everything I've watched over the past month. Starting with Boyz...
This movie was very true to its genre: drama. Drama was leaking off the screen evertime I watched this movie (which was all of 3 times...I would like to go back and re-claim those six hours of my life please!) and all the characters were classic poor, lower class minorities.
Keeping in mind I didn't watch this movie of my own free will (it was for that Sociology class I keep mentioning) so I wasn't too open to it from the beginning. I don't usually find these types of movies too interesting or thought-provoking so I tend to avoid them.
Boyz was the same until the end. It starts off with the main character, Tre, who moves across town to live in the ghetto with his dad so his mom can go back to school. There he meets Ricky, the kid who is obsessed with football, and Doughboy...Ricky's brother. Doughboy doesn't do much of anything so it's hard to characterize him simply.
Anyway, these crazy kids get into some trouble and end up on the wrong side of a drive by shooting. Someone dies and this hits the whole neighborhood really hard. Everyone is sad and then shortly after the movie ends.
To give you guys a hint, Dough doesn't die...well not immediately. He gives a really nice 'last speech' about the person that did die in the shooting and this was the only part of the movie I really liked. To sum up he said something along the lines of, 'people don't know what's happening here in the ghetto because no one shows it. We are never gonna get any respect or help from anyone because they don't know we're here.'
Powerful, right? Well maybe not my rendition of it but you should find the clip on youtube and watch it. You don't have to understand the rest of the *cough* awful *cough* movie to feel the emotion from this guy. And all this coming from a nobody who wastes his life drinking and having sex? Wow, that's really impressive. Then just when you think he's gonna pick up his life and do something he dies.
Harsh, but predictable. Even so his speech is definitely worth checking out so here's the video, I know the quality is terrible but ignore it...you're welcome :)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lt9PYuC1RZs
Overall, 2 stars. If this last scene didn't exist then this movie would only be worth 1 star, but that's how much I was affected by it.
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