When drive-by shootings, carjackings, grand theft auto, riddling bodies with bullets, liquor store robberies and playing and re-playing videos of your own surveillance market murder videos are the recreational outlets in ones’ environment, the realistic odds of a truly successful life are weighing against you-even a set of loving grandparents are hard-pressed to save your soul.The main adolescent characters in this movie, unfortunately, didn’t deal with the issues in their lives and environment in productive ways.įor starters here, we watch as O-Dog shoots the Korean liquor store owner and his wife after he and Caine are demanded to leave the store after being abusive towards the store owners.

Guns, drugs, gangs, prison and death are a common theme and makeup of this environment and many environments that produce groups of juvenile delinquents.I suppose I would say that it would have to be the exceptional person who lives in the hood in a well-adjusted family situation that possibly has a small chance of not becoming a juvenile delinquent in an atmosphere like the one we see in Menace II Society. We have the children that at most when in the fortunate minority, have one “present” parent. One could say that Caine was doomed from the beginning as he watched his father shoot a man in his home as a young boy. Menace II Society “Don’t you care whether you live or die?” – Caine’s grandfather The plot, if it can be stated as such, in Menace II Society basically chronicles life or coming-of-age in Watts, Los Angeles hood particularly focusing on the life of 18-year-old Caine “Kaydee” Lawson the summer after his high school graduation.Ĭaine basically is left to fend for himself in this environment and the viewers watch 90 minutes of what can be referred to as either a roller-coaster ride or a continuous train wreck through life in this “gangsta” environment.This film and the environment this film chronicles could be said as having all the right ingredients to create juvenile delinquency.

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