Boyz in the Hood Analysis

Boyz n da hood starts off with the sounds of a crime scene, along side excessive use of the N word which shows that this is a black neighbourhood through the stereotyping of black slang. Crime is a drive by shooting which we can tell from the sound effects such as the slamming of the car door, the screech of tires and finally gunshots. The opening minute is filled with a black screen whilst these sound effects play, however text comes up on the screen giving statistics that "one out of every twenty one black Americans will be murdered in their lifetime" During these we hear the sound of a small boy weeping as he says that "they have shot my friend and my brother" which demonstrates the chaos and tragedies that congregate in the early 1990' black American neighbourhoods.

 After the minute, we are presented with a stop sign which is symbolising the fact that these tragedies need to be stopped and that the segregation needs to also be stopped. We are also presented with our protagonists, who are casually talking about last nights shooting, as if it was a natural thing to happen, one of them even goes as far as to present what their mother said "a bullet don't have no name on it" this shows the corruption is a natural chaos that is always happening in their neighbourhood and they have grown up like this. Our protagonists then are taken to a crime scene which depicts a lot of gun shot holes on election posters and blood on the wall that has turned yellow. In this scene we are introduced to the intelligence of Trey, the boy in the jumper and collared shirt, when he states to the girl who says "why is the blood turning yellow?" to which he quickly says "that's what happens when it separates from the plasma". This line of dialogue shows that this boy has had a different up bringing and has a brighter future ahead of him rather than his friends that don't have the same intelligence he does, this is always represented in his clothes because he is dressed a lot smarter than his friends.

When the scene transitions into the classroom we are introduced to the kid's drawings which are all depicting crimes/tragedies of some sort, from the coffin to the LAPD chopper that was drawn with it's spotlight flashing down upon the ground. We are also shown that trey has a bad temper, even willing to start a fight with his friend just because he wasn't listening and making jokes, this escalates as far as trey friends saying that he will "get ma brother and shoot yo in the face" to which trey replies with "getch yo punk ass brother bitch, i'll get my daddy" representing that chaos escalates quickly in their neighbourhood and that crime is everywhere, showing that even their relatives/siblings are forced to live a life of crime.