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Menace II Society

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Menace II Society

This is the truth. This is what's real.
Written by Allen Hughes (story)
Albert Hughes (story)
Tyger Williams (story & screenplay)
Starring Tyrin Turner
Larenz Tate
Jada Pinkett Smith
MC Eiht
Clifton Powell

director=Allen Hughes &
Albert Hughes

Music by Various artists
Distributed by New Line Cinema
Release date(s) May 26, 1993 (limited)
May 28, 1993 (nationwide)
Running time 97 minutes
Country USA
Language English
Budget $3.5 million
IMDb profile

Menace II Society is the directorial debut of twin brothers Allen and Albert Hughes. A theatrical release hit theaters (nationwide) May 28, 1993, with the movie making an appearance before that, at the Cannes Film Festival in France. Its release at that period was well timed, as the early 1990s were the peak era for the then-popular hood movies.

The film gained notoriety with its famous liquor store scene and was rebuked for its frequent use of sadistic violence. However, despite mixed reviews, the movie was critically acclaimed for its gritty portrayal of urban violence and its powerful underlying messages.

The film takes place in South Central Los Angeles, an area of L.A. that is often portrayed as violent in the media. It follows the life of 18-year-old Caine "Kaydee" Lawson during a long summer after his high school graduation. Although he is a drug-dealer, Caine has a number of redeeming qualities; he lives with his loving grandparents, and with his recently completed high school education, has a number of doors open to him. He financially and emotionally supports a close female friend who is a single mother. However, most of Caine's friends - in particular, the homicidally trigger-happy Kevin ("O-Dog") - all seem to be heading towards either jail or an early grave, and are threatening to take Caine with them.

Spoiler warning: Plot and/or ending details follow.

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The movie begins as a flustered Caine and his psychopathic friend, O-Dog, flee the scene after a liquor store robbery. They are in the store to buy malt liquor before going to a party. The Korean shopkeeper and his wife are watching them with apparent unease. O-Dog is verbally abusive of the Korean couple and they demand he and Caine leave. The shopkeeper's parting comment about feeling sorry for O-Dog's mother provokes O-Dog to shoot the man, then his wife as a witness. O-Dog takes money from the cash register and steals the surveillance videotape. (He later watches it repeatedly, seemingly proud of his actions. He also doesn't hesitate to show it to his friends, ignoring Caine's warnings that it will get them both into trouble.)

In a flashback the audience learns that several years before the start of film, the drug epidemic has hit the Watts District hard, and Caine's father, Tat Lawson (Samuel L. Jackson), has made this his main source of income by selling heroin. His mother (Khandi Alexander), a heroin addict, is strung out most of the time, so a young Caine has no one to take care of him and is left to fend for himself in an unforgiving world of drugs, guns, and violence. Caine is given a handle on this form of societal decay by the ubiquitous Pernell, who becomes in a way Caine's "street" father, a replacement for the often absent "real" father Caine never truly comes to know.

Years later, with Pernell in jail and his parents gone, Caine lives with his grandparents in Jordan Downs. He has just graduated from high school and is the proud recipient of a diploma. To celebrate, he and his cousin Harold head off to a party. The celebration quickly turns ugly as Harold and Caine are caught off guard ("caught slippin'") and are both shot during a carjacking for their car, a BMW. Fortunately, Caine is only shot in his shoulder, which causes him to go into shock. Harold isn't so lucky - a bullet enters his brain, killing him.

After receiving treatment for the shoulder injury, Caine is granted permission to go home. He is picked up by Ronnie, the ex-girlfriend and mother of Pernell's five-year-old son, Anthony, a boy who often reminds Caine of how he used to be when he was much younger. Caine develops a bond with the young child, forming a father-son relationship with him, much like the one he had with Pernell years before. This relationship - Caine, Ronnie, and Anthony - shows us a different side to our rather unconventional hero.

As the summer drags on, Caine becomes implicated in two additional murders, grand theft auto, and the acquisition of stolen goods: a registered car, rims, and jewelry that he robs from another youth. He's also learned that cops can be as "hard" as he can, but what sets them apart from him is that they have badges and guns, where he only has a gun. Caine winds up in the hospital after experiencing police brutality. Ronnie visits him during his recovery process, but with more on her mind than just a simple meet-up. She is worried about Caine, and would be less concerned if he were to come with her and Anthony to Atlanta, where she plans to work. She leaves him alone to think about her offer, and Caine reminisces on all that has happened to him, all that he's done, and all the things he'd ultimately end up doing if he stayed.

With Pernell's encouragement, Caine decides to go with Anthony and his mother. In the final scenes of the movie we see the gang, even O-Dog, taking Caine's belongings out of the rooms and into the van outside Ronnie's house. It's a beautiful day outside, the ice cream truck is making its rounds, and Anthony's trying out the new big wheel Caine just bought him. However, earlier in the film Caine had allegedly impregnated a girl named Ilena, and Ilena's cousin, angry from a beating by Caine over Caine's refusal to acknowledge his responsibility, drives past the house. As Caine and his friends are about to leave, Ilena's cousin and his buddies perform a drive-by shooting. Caine and his friend Sharif are both riddled with bullets and die. Caine takes many of the shots as he shielded Anthony. As we see several flashback images from the movie, as well as one of O-Dog being arrested for the robbery that took place at the film's beginning, Caine's voice-over tells us that he wishes he had made better choices instead of becoming a victim of the raging violence of his neighborhood.

[edit] Impact on Culture

While the movie was seen by fans as a gritty portrayal of urban strife, many critics of the movie felt that it actually glamourized the lifestyle.[citation needed] This was the exact opposite of what the directors had intended when making the movie. This movie, along with popular debut albums from Snoop Dogg and Dr. Dre, helped to popularize the thug lifestyle idolized by black youths in the early nineties.

The movie was largely successful due to the brilliant and realistic dialogue. It was also one of the first movies to use the regional slang and dialect of urban blacks in Los Angeles as opposed to the New York black slang and accent that dominated most of urban media.[citation needed] As a result, many fans of the movie are able to recite lines from the movie almost verbatim. There have been many references to the movie in pop culture. The most recent example is The Boondocks cartoon series incorporating quotes from the movie into the dialogue of the character voiced by Samuel L. Jackson. Another is on Jay-Z's album The Blueprint, where on the Girls, Girls, Girls remix in the final track he says: "For now I get around, like the late Makaveli on Pirelli twenty inches, or Caine and O-Dog's stick-up tape from Menace." In the song "High All the Time", 50 Cent raps about being a role model where he says "sippin' Guinness watching Menace and Oh Lord, have a young nigga buckin shit like he O-Dog." Similarly in "New York", The Game raps "it's the sequel to Menace and Oh Lord he done went O-Dog". The Film has has been credited "The the best portrayal of the urban lifestyle."

Papoose has made a mixtape sequel to the movie StreetSweepers Presents Papoose: Menace II Society Part II.

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