Famous Last Words: 'My grandpa asked me one time if I care whether I live or die.Even Bad Men Love Their Mamas: 'What the hell did you say about my mama?!'.Dying Dream: At the end of the film, Caine is thinking about his life as he lies there dying, and it's at this point that we realize (if you consider this interpretation of the film) that the ENTIRE film we've just seen has been Caine's life passing before his eyes, as he lies dying.A few critics consider this a cynical antithesis to Boyz N the Hood.

'Do you want to live or die?' is the simple choice his grandfather put out to him.but the answer doesn't come until it's too late. Watch as he struggles with car jackings, murdered friends, taking care of a single mother and her son, and a question that burns in the back of his mind, asked by his grandfather. 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. With a father that dealt heroin and a mother 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 and his friend O-Dog living in the streets of Crenshaw.

Along with Boyz N the Hood, it is one of the defining films of the early '90s and helped popularize the urban crime drama. Menace II Society is a 1993 urban drama directed by the Hughes Brothers (in their debut).

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