OT- RIP John Singleton

[superjohn]

Only 51 years of age, way too young to go. Still blows my mind he directed Boyz N The Hood when he was just 22. Today the film is just as brilliant, fresh, important, and devastating as it was 28 years ago.

 

[ColchVEGAS]

Ricccccckkkkkkkky!

 

[Ts5034]

Poetic Justice with Tupac and Janet Jackson was another good movie he directed.

 

[ZenConn]

Oh man. RIP. Boyz will go down as one of my favorite movies ever.

Never realized he was only 51 years old and directed Boyz when he was 23.

What the hell was I doing at 23?

 

[uconnbill]

So sad.

May He RIP and my prayers are with his family

 

[Crank]

Today the film is just as brilliant, fresh, important, and devastating as it was 28 years ago.

The film missed a wonderful opportunity to begin an analysis about the root causes of the violence cycle in which most inner city youth are caught. Instead, it focused on symptoms, entrenched structural response to those symptoms, and vague, tangential causation, allowing the problems addressed in the film to worsen to where we are today, which is close to the complete socio economic destruction of an entire cultural subset of our country.

 

[BigErnMcCracken]

Great to have FrankIvy back.

 

[Rico444]

Great to have FrankIvy back.

I wasn't quite sure if it was him until that post.

 

[DMIL]

The film missed a wonderful opportunity to begin an analysis about the root causes of the violence cycle in which most inner city youth are caught. Instead, it focused on symptoms, entrenched structural response to those symptoms, and vague, tangential causation, allowing the problems addressed in the film to worsen to where we are today, which is close to the complete socio economic destruction of an entire cultural subset of our country.

Your point is taken however more applicable if he created a 5 part docu-series around the root causes. This was a cultural American movie released in the Middle of the crack epidemic that impacted communities significantly across generations all over the nation. At the end of the day he made a movie representative of life in these communities impacted thus humanizing these communities. It's an American classic but also a reminder of the systematic policies that contributed to the nationwide crack epidemic starting with Iran Contra and the CIA creating and funneling this stuff in these communities through existing gang networks to fund an illegal war.

If our government / country put the same focus as they are doing now on the Opioid Crisis generations of people in these communities would be in a much better situation now.