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It is a district, as a whole, full of drug addicts, immorality, crazy and violent gangsters, and gang-wars. It is not a lovely place, at least in this film.

Chekhov's Gun: The surveillance tape of the armed robbery eventually comes back to bite O-Dog when Chauncey releases the tape to the police as revenge against Caine-who escapes arrest only because he is murdered before it can happen.

Casino would later outdo Menace by 122 f-bombs.)

Cluster F-Bomb: More so than in Boyz n the Hood, with a whopping 300 uses of "fuck" (tying Goodfellas.

Caine beats the shit out of him, which encourages the cousin to grab some goons and come to Ronnie's house, resulting in Caine and Sharif being murdered, and Anthony possibly being scarred for life.

The cousin of Ilena, a girl Caine had a one-night stand with, comes to Caine's hood to confront him over ditching Ilena and his possible child.

Chauncey responds by selling out Caine and O-Dog to the police using the Korean store murder-robbery tape that O-Dog stupidly sold to him.

Caine beats up Chauncey for sexually harassing Ronnie in a drunken stupor.

When he actually does the deed, he's not as satisfied as he initially thought, and it keeps him up at night. He's never killed anyone before but is fully prepared to do so now. Caine decides to get revenge once he's discharged from the hospital.

Caine's cousin Harold gets shot and killed by some thugs.

Central Theme: Revenge is a recurring theme in the film, and it's never pretty.

Bottomless Magazines: During the scene in which Caine's father Tad murders the man stiffing him on paying him the money he's owed, he fires a total of eight shots into the guy's chest, despite him holding what appears to be a six-shot revolver.

The Hughes Brothers wanted their film to sort of be the reverse side of the coin that we saw in Boyz.

But While John Singleton's film followed Tre, a decent kid who ultimately stays straight and escapes the hood, Menace follows one of the many youths who succumb to the streets and don't make it out. Both films chronicle the struggles of the ghetto. Everything in this film is Played for Drama. The film has almost no lighter moments, mainly for the ending. Bloodier and Gorier/ Darker and Edgier/ Spiritual Antithesis: This film is far more violent, dramatic, downbeat, darker and edgier than Boyz n the Hood.Black Comedy: Caine runs to another guy's car, gun in hand, to jack him for his rims and his radio."and I'd like a double burger with cheese!" His victim is understandably confused.Berserk Button: O-Dog might have spared the Asian Store-Owner (keyword being might) if he hadn't said he felt sorry for O-Dog's mother.Watch as he struggles with car jackings, murdered friends, taking care of a single mother ( Jada Pinkett) and her son, and a question that burns in the back of his mind, asked by his grandfather: "Do you care whether you live or die?" That answer doesn't come until it's too late. After graduating high school, a feat that none of his friends pulled off, he had choices to make, and although his heart was in the right place, he was stuck in the wrong time.

Jackson) that dealt heroin and a mother ( Khandi Alexander) who was addicted to it, he had no chance as a child, and went to live with his grandparents. Caine is a thug with a heart, and the opportunity to succeed, if the streets will let him. The story centers around a street life thug named Caine (Tyrin Turner) and his friend O-Dog ( Larenz Tate) living in the streets of Watts. Along with Boyz n the Hood, it is one of the defining films of the early '90s and helped popularize the urban crime drama and the Hood Film. Menace II Society is a 1993 urban drama Hood Film directed by the Hughes Brothers (in their debut).