Boyz n The Hood
Whats the first thing that comes to your mind when you hear the title "Boyz n' The Hood" ? Probably gangs, guns, and a lot of violence right ? Well sadly you're correct. This movie is about all that and more. Boyz n' The Hood is about a couple of friends who live in a bad neighborhood, and violence is the norm to them. Some get raised up well and don't get caught up in the chaos, but others do.
One of the most interesting characters in this movie to me is Dough boy. Dough boy is Ricky's brother, and Ricky is Tre's childhood good friend. The tree of them and couple other young guys are all good friends.
All the way from the beginning of the movie you can automatically get a feel of how each character is going to play out, but Dough boy kind of surprises me. At one point he's this "tough" cold hearted guy, and then he can be such a good friend always looking out for his "boys". His relationship with his mother also is intrigues me as well. Its obvious that his mom favors one of them more then the other. Dough boy isn't the favorite one though. His brother Ricky is, but even though he isn't as loved by his mom as much as she loves his brother he doesn't ever take much notice. Others notice though, and they do say things but he kind of shoves it aside, and respects her regardless, although hes not the perfect son you can still tell he has that love for her.
Dough boy to me has two different sides. For the majority of the movie he is a typical "brother" you know always having his guard up, always carrying a gun, always drinking a 40 etc. His other side kind of peeks in here and there. Its hard to describe. Like when a professor came to their house to have a meeting with Ricky he had this respect for the man and while everyone else was cracking jokes Dough boy tried to shut them up because in a way he knows when to be serious and when its okay not to be. Another scene is obviously when his brother died. Even though he didn't shed any automatic tears or run up to him you could tell he was extremely hurt. That you could tell really hurt him deep. Its kind of ironic though how when his brother was killed his softER side came out, but that only led to anger, and back to the violent guy he pretends to be leading him to kill the guys that supposedly killed Ricky.
Another character that I find interesting is the main character himself, Tre. From the beginning I really liked his dad, Furious. I like how he was wise even when he was a young father. Although there was violence left and right Furious was never caught up in it unless it was brought to him. Furious taught Tre to not go down the same path as everyone else to only end up shot and killed. Furious being a stern father always showing Tre good disciplinary doesn't hurt really made him grow up to be a nice young man. Yes even though he still hung out with his neighborhood 'boys' he was never really involved in violence or doing something illegal. He was always a calm young man. His girl troubles were the same as any other teen age male back then, but besides that Tre was a really good example how it is possible a well behaved respectable man in such a bad neighborhood. Even though he doesn't act like a hard 'thug' he does break down, and admits is was embarrassing for him to do so because he is a male. So I guess it doesn't matter the way you grew up it matters on what gender you are. Its like whatever gender you are comes with different roles to play, and when you feel like you're playing the other genders role its unacceptable. At least something like that. (its hard to explain what I want to say so sorry if those last couples sentences don't make a ton of sense haha).
Overall I think there are many characters that will surprise you and these are just some that really caught my attention. You just have to watch the movie to really understand what I mean when I say a lot of roles are switched, and people who you think are on your side aren't, but then the last person who you think is there for them really is in the end.
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