<p align="center"><b><i>Singleton’s Boyz N the Hood</i></b></p>
Boyz N the Hood Written by John Singleton in his directing debut in 1991. This film is about Tre who starts the story of as a young black boy living with his mother. The family and teachers know he is smart but sees he has a problem with his temper. His mother decides to send him with his father so he can help Tre become the man he needs to be. So as Tre grows with his father he learns many valuable lessons and the other characters see Tre as a kind of role model. Because of their environment, there are many life threatening dangers which eventually catches up with Tre’s Best friend Ricky. Tre and Ricky’s brother Doughboy then decide to Seek Revenge on Ricky’s murderer but Tre is first stopped by his father and reminded of what he has been taught. How there set up in a trap where black men are in this cycle of kill him, be killed by his brother, then your cousin kills him. Tre understands but doughboy doesn’t UNTIL after he gets revenge and immediately comes and tells Tre he understands. In the end, the cycle continues and doughboy is eventually killed also like his brother. This Story was actuality in a lot of poor minority areas so the author was reaching out to our society in a whole showing people what goes on in poor “violent” areas.

This work was Very Typical of its era because so much of it was going on; there were many causes of the same thing from the movie every day. “Delinquency and involvement in crime rank high among the many detrimental effects which father absence has on children. Reported violent crime has increased 550 percent between 1960 and 1996. The population, on the other hand, has increased only 41 percent. Between 1983 and 1992, juvenile arrest rates for murder increased 128 percent (p. 61). According to Popenoe, such increased crime rates, especially those perpetrated by juveniles, represent a serious consequence which father absence has for society. For example, in A General Theory of Crime, written in 1990, two criminologists, Michael R. Gottfredson and Travis Hirschi, conclude that children living in single-parent families are more likely to involve themselves in crime than children in families where both parents are present (Popenoe, p. 62). Popenoe also presents statistical information, concerning criminal percentages, which reveals that most violent criminals are from single-parent families without fathers.”(Matthew Edison)

This work was very unusual for its time for the fact of it being one of the first African American based movies directed by an African American director. "It's a story that a lot of those cats used to make in the '80s, in the suburbs, but made in the 'hood," Singleton says of the films that inspired Boyz N The Hood. "I loved the pictures, but none of those people looked like me. So me and my friends would catch the bus up to Hollywood, and we'd go see the movies, and we spent the whole time going down Vermont talking about the movie we would make. And the movie that we would make would always be something like what I did with Boyz N the Hood.”

How this film was received in its time it “was almost instantly recognized as an extraordinary work. Boyz N the Hood was selected for the 1991 Cannes Film Festival, and when it opened in the U.S. on July 12, it was met with both critical and financial success. It took in nearly $60 million at the box office and earned Singleton two Academy Award nominations, for best original screenplay and best director. He was the youngest director, and the first black director, ever nominated in the latter category. (John Ridley)

The work is still relevant today In “July of 2011; Boyz n the Hood celebrated its 20th Anniversary. While the film has become part and parcel of popular culture, its significance and import to discussions of race and gender dynamics are incalculable. Garnering several Academy Award nominations the year it was released and becoming the 2002 selection for preservation in the National Film Registry.”(Ariel Schudson)

My personal reaction I immediately felt some relativity because we have been through some similar experiences in life. His situations are bad with even worse conclusions so I could not all the way bond With Tre but I find many messages meaningful and something the world future generations and even I should take and preserve for ourselves. Messages Such as How poor men are locked in a cycle of kill someone and then get retaliated on by a relative or close friend one can easily so how the cycle can last centuries, an easy extermination of minorities.

When I watched this film it reminded me a great deal of the movie juice. Juice had a sequence of killings shown because of the neighborhoods and how their environment kind of pushes them into this. There is little amount of money circulating around, along with the high demand for money, food, and lots of other necessities that poor families need. Both movies have a group of young black boys who dress alike, talk alike, and think alike put in similar situations and get similar results where there are lots of casualties for both sides.

The reason I want to preserve this for future generations is because the message it shows. It teaches viewers the importance of raising your young children in a way it should go and how it can prove to be successful. Because his father is there he is able to teach him certain values and lessons that he later used in life. You can also see how the killing of each other, as well as the poverty, and liquor stores are things we need to look into as well, watching this movie can help us come up a grand master solution.

Sources:

<a href="http://www.unc.edu/~edison/socscifinal.htm">http://www.unc.edu/~edison/socscifinal.htm</a>

<a href="http://www.npr.org/2011/07/08/137675331/boyz-n-the-hood-rings-out-20-years-later">http://www.npr.org/2011/07/08/137675331/boyz-n-the-hood-rings-out-20-years-later</a>

<a href="http://www.craveonline.com/film/articles/202155-the-myth-of-macho-boyz-n-the-hood">http://www.craveonline.com/film/articles/202155-the-myth-of-macho-boyz-n-the-hood</a>