Analyzing Evil: Menace II Society 

Yes, I was 12 years old when this movie dropped and those last words still ring in my head when ever somebody Mentions Menace 2 Society.

@@danadane2501Yeah, it really lays bare the unforgiving nature of life at times. It’s always sad to see someone strive to change their circumstances, only for said circumstances or past mistakes to bring them down.

You're on point as usual. THANK YOU

🔥🔥🔥

⁠​⁠@@danadane2501 This movie came out before I was born but I also saw it when I was about 12-13 and it had the same impact on me. It struck me to my core. Made me realize early on how harsh reality can be sometimes

Fact too bad he got arrested after Kane died if he haven't show everyone the tape and ended up giving Chauncey instead destroying it...

trauma bonding.

Yeah O-Dog was a straight up menace.

A straight up psychopath.. Helluva character though

"You want some cheeseburgers?" That scene imo, cemented how lost that man was. I once had a homeless crackhead offer to suck me off for money, I just walked away, definitely didn't shoot him

I agree

It's complete BS. Go to Haiti, Jamaica, or any African country and you'll see far worse, and none of the pathetic woke excuses he lists apply to those countries. Those communities became what they are because black people live there, end of story.

Should be called “Analyzing Excuses”

​@@turnkeydirectyou mean truth

@@turnkeydirectexcuses for what??

Yes 🙏🕊️so glad he did an amazing analysis on it

Mainly because of the propaganda from movies like these, hollywood and mainstream music pushes. Mainstream media is to blame because it glorifies gang culture and the majority are influenced.

Compton ain’t no joke

@@12tribes61Compton is cool now. $800,000 dollar homes and shit, it’s so hard to move there you gotta be wealthy

Gentrification is creating similar ethnic lines as the ones created in the 60’s they’re just shifting

They weren't the wrong people, they were his friends and a true friend would do what he was doing and try to get his homies on the right path and away from the hood shit.

​@@ichigokurosaki1081got him killed so def the wrong people

@ichigokurosaki1081 yeah no homes are not that still got him killed over some stuff he didn't do, your mindset proves how deep the psychological effects of this stuff has on people.

@BlackxExorcistitsyaboi frfr if your homies almost get you killed they are the wrong people.

@@artoffacts96 socioeconomic*, not psychological

How? The other video breakdowns were biased?

​@@ptolemeeselenion1542 they weren't

@@TheRealBatCave How so? I am not informed about any of these.

@@ptolemeeselenion1542what in the world are you asking?

@@need-to-know- What?

Those are the words that always make me shiver when I see this film.

🤡 evil/good are logical fallacies, I don’t think you understand the breakdown of this film or why it’s even being broken down. We only see this movie in a perspective of the main character Caine. Good and evil can only exist in the realm of perspective subjectively, but never objectively. In this movie the environmental setting is based on the aspects of humans closer to nature, which causes their psychology to be more PRIMAL than more developed fortunate areas where people seem to be more domestic as the word “human” categorizes an ANIMAL

I agree in contrast by saying Good and Bad happens to both Good and Bad people. It’s how life is, we just never know.

@@Lucciii32 That's not exactly true either, not every character in this movie is living on primal instinct and impulse. Ronnie isn't, Shareef isn't, neither is Shareef's father or Cain's grandparents. All of whom try to serve as a moral compass for the main character and others. So to see this movie as everyone is living like "animals" sounds like a severe misunderstanding of the film. Nor can it be said that there is no objective evil in this movie, since it starts off with an act of objective evil.

@@MrSFblack 😭😭😭objective evil doesn’t EXIST, not only in this movie but in reality itself. Neither does morality as it is subjective perspective of an individual that implements what they view as right or wrong.That’s the literal point of this RU-vid channel dumbass. To give the perspective of characters perceived as “evil” in a way putting the audience in their shoes, as means to find logic/reasoning in their actions. Ronnie,Shareef and Kane’s grandparents all have the superstition of irrational/illogical belief, in which gives one’s mortality a meaning and sense of eternal existence. Also my point was never about the side characters in this movie, nor was the topic of this video, but more so the overall influences surrounding Kane’s environment and how experiencing these things shaped the perspective of the main character. Every character you mentioned has little to no effect on Kane’s influence or decisions such as the other side characters perceived “evil” such as O’dogg. It is not them who influence Kane into the decisions that lead to his detriment, as if they were the influence of “evil” Kane’s perception would be similar to theirs, in which we know in the movie that was never the case.

That’s crap. These people are savage murderers. Their problems don’t justify ANY murders that happen in this movie.

Lmao the reply to your comment is literally what you described 🤦🏾

@@giosbizarreart9048 right. It's society's fault that odog killed a cashier... Also, the movie is called menace TO society. Not menace IS society. Odog and cain are the menace TO society.

The evil is not society but rather culture. Back home where my family is from its dirt poor and a war zone yet people there aren't murdering each other, selling drugs, raping people etc...... It's a cultural problem

@@locochang6533 It actually is a soceity's fault, the same ignorant reason your username contains the word 'loco' which is from spic-anish colonization, or the simple fact that everything that lead up this moment has been systemically built to keep the populous simple minded. People who are indentured in the lower socioeconomic status have no choice but to become a statistic or work as a clog in the machine serving no other purpose than being an alienated worker that only benefits the financial elite. Who also dictate the police and laws that are meant to only protect the rich and their property. People who raised in the ghettos have vary limited freedoms or opportunities as the video has addressed. Either work hard as functioning member or become a menace to soceity because of the injustices procured by the victors of history--critical thinking is the only way out.

Life isn’t fair. Being good in a place where “evil” is king is not a good way to make it out alive, sadly.

O Dogg got arrested for the Murder of the Korans in the beginning of the film

Usually how it goes.

O dog gets arrested at the end

That’s how it goes in real life too smh the actual good folks get hurt while the foul ones live on

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@@madarauchiha-yc9hg I've been asking for vic mackey for a while 😢

This whole video was a jem I really appreciate how he broke this down and gave us a history recap with it as well

It gave me the chills

12% of the population and over 60% of violent crime. +ratio

It keeps you alive, so if that isn't healthy then what is?

@@patrick888881 that’s a shame, your statement basically reads as follows “segregation and profiling people is ok because it keeps you out of potential danger or harm”. I hope this isn’t what you meant, and if not you may want to elaborate on your original statement.

Oh so your parents left this movie playing over and over on the TV as well

@@isaiahtrujillo1953 no they did not I just came across this.

Even better

t bag- prison break jax teller-sons of anarchy vic mackey-the shield

I couldn’t agree with your statement even more.

⁠@hex schmex ignorance is bliss

​@hex schmex absolutely

​@hex schmex Oh yes Mr. Anime profile picture that's most likely a white kid. Please tell me how exactly it's black people's fault for having less opportunities at a better life because of the hundreds of years of hatred and oppression?

@Drshindigglydoo28191I hope all of you non black people have to live in the same conditions that black people were forced to live in..In the next life Y’all’s dismissive attitude whenever somebody just brings up basic history like redlining, Jim Crow, segregation, racist housing laws ext is disgusting and I hope y’all have to live through every injustice known to man since slavery…I despise all of y’all

@hex schmex We the first people ✊🏽 stay mad colonist.

Exactly.

Platoon is one of my top 3 fav army movies behind Fury and Svaing private ryan

Do yall consider Dead Presidents and Vietnam movie?

​@Secondplanetfromthesun My opinion: I wouldn't go so far as to say a Vietnam movie, but the war has a significant impact on the main characters. It's a major plot device, though, since the war's impact moves the film's events forward. Great film!

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I believe we're supposed to think all that flashed through his mind right before he died

@@kwadwotuffour5529 The reason I believed this was from beyond the grave was because of his final line: "My grandfather once asked me if I cared whether or not I lived or died. Turns out I do, *now it's too late* ." I do agree it's plausible that he thought this just as he felt himself slipping towards death and realized he wasn't suriving this, because he says "I do" rather than "I *did* "

@@KenDaKingArrives it's a very nice nod to scary and thriller shorts from comics like Tales from the Crypt, novels or short films where the narrator is telling the audience a cautionary tale from the grave that is always left ambiguous but hinted at towards the end

Amen!

Absolitely. The system that kept them bound to that lifestyle was the true evil.

I don’t disagree with you, but O Dog was still a fucking psychopath.

And everyone is looking for someone to blame. The police, the politicians, the pimps, the pushers. What are they but tentacles from the same writhing beast?

Oh jeesh! Gimmie a damn break. I was once hungry and without too. I didn't pick up no damn gun and run around acting stupid.

​@@cheshire_skatkat9093Unfortunately you're an anecdotal minority within this situation as your experience doesn't override the fact that Black Americans have the highest poverty rate, single motherhood, and a culture that glorify crime.

These movies were warnings and pictures into what is happening at the time……and nothing has changed Who is at fault? Both the black community,AND the system responsible for it.

@@brendaspence1824 Black People wouldn't be so messed up including to EACHOTHER if the system didn't break them....

@@brendaspence1824 riiiiiight. The system is responsible for odog blasting a cashiers head off, right?

@@locochang6533 rewatch the vid slow brain

@@locochang6533 no. But the sys to em is responsible for creating a toxic, poisonous environment that result in the increase of liklihood of a violent mindset.

Yeah man I found my first body when I was in middle school, heard her get murdered and everything also knew kids who dads would flip and murder-suicide. The hood is no joke

Right. It’s all the white mans fault. A white man made o dog blast a cashier..

Caused by black people

I'm not from America do not understand but who was committing the violence

⁠@@RickTheBoss98Your question is restrictive. You’re looking for one main cause when the purpose was to explain the links that created the issues. Multiple constantly changing mindsets and outside forces led to so much strife that we Americans as whole still face to this day. In the film in this story there were multiple people in this neighborhood hurting each other murders robberies there wasn’t 1 specific person or group committing the violence. That isn’t what the film is about. It explores the harsh realities of living in this area and the influences that fucked it up

@@Isaiah_Drake so the group complaining about the violence are also the group committing violence that's a very interesting problem I wonder if this same group in other geographical locations follow the same pattern of behaviour oh that's interesting I just research that it doesn't appear to my photo if this group of people are in France Belgium Canada Australia Nigeria South Africa they seem to commit violence then complain the area is violence extremely interesting situation I'm just playing it's all love

You guys should collab

Different layers

Definately the greatest hood movie of all time

Oh Saint would be a really good one to see…he was really losing it at the end! Awesome suggestion!

@@brandyburke5325 Bishop still screaming "Riverside motherfucker!" Would love to see a video on Bishop and Juice.

Teddy McDonald would be a dope analysis

And Nino Brown from New Jack City

Here’s your cookie 🍪

If you honestly thought a comment like that warranted a double murder, then I feel sorry for your momma

Cain was killed for stompin oh girl “cousin” out, plain and simple! That got shareef killed too.

Bro, at that age, I had seen the exorcist 😂. Honestly aliens was more scary at 7 with only my younger sister with me parents out at midnight. Had to wait outside the toilet door cause my lil sis (6 at the time) was too scared to walk to the toilet by herself that night. Not to mention, the toilet door was next to the door leading outside. Funny note, I accidentally rented faces of death at 8. Thought it was a futuristic Sci fi movie with the guy and his helmet. Turned out to be the electric chair helmet... 😂.

​@@erickghoul174whatchu say bout my mumma?

This the comment I was looking for bro I would argue that most black teen boys go thru this faze where they for some odd reason(me as well) wanted to be not like but viewed like O-Dog. People really didn’t fear him as much as they just saw him as a force of nature. It sounds cringe but it’s the same reason kids listen to King Von and YB. It feels pretty good to be a villain.

In other words, he's kind of like a literally me character for black kids. Not too dissimilar from edgy white kids admiring figures like Tyler Durden and other sorts of anti-heroes.

@@Someone_Unknown90 nah bro it’s doesn’t sound cringe, trust me I understand. You right people looked up to Von like that too

@@nadiaromantini8836 EXACTLYYYYYY, I was just about to say bruh every boy goes through this phase where there intrinsic thoughts just take over and they wanna be the bad guy. Johnny Cash, Clint Eastwood, Goodfellas, Scarface, Pablo Escobar even though he was a literal terrorist. But honestly I blame hoes NOT WOMEN but the hoes cause they egg that shit specially on and more horrifically they know how to do it without even saying a word. You get embarrassed by a bunch of hoes in front of the whole party, I swear you wanna become a menace that instant.

Cause O Dog wasn’t afraid of anyone he seem have power over his life, giving justice to those who do wrong in his law. He’s no different than a Judge Dredd or Cowboy from Wild West. But since he’s lives in a modern society he’s viewed as a monster. Which is true but relatable is fair.

Crazy cause O Dogg from the Go too

@@DJ-iu5bb Damn I didn't know that 😳

Nah. Like we see at the end, Caine could've chosen a better life for himself way before things ended up the way they did. That proves that they're not "products of their environment," they're _more_ than that, but they choose to live that life because they believed, for most of the film, that it was all they could do. Saying they're "products of their environment" is just an excuse to blame their situation and the consequences on something other than two men making bad decisions in life.

​@@_Jay_Maker_ 💯 correct

​@@_Jay_Maker_ You acknowledge that they're actions were a result of them believing they had no other options than crime but balk at the idea that they're products of their environment. wtf, did your brain break there or something

@@_Jay_Maker_ Saying someone is a product of their environment doesn’t excuse any of their actions. It provides reasoning for how their decision making could be impacted. You said it yourself they believed it was all they could do. And that’s because they grew up an environment where most people didn’t have any hope and were surrounded by the same cycle of evil

⁠@@_Jay_Maker_ You’re both wrong. In saying that the two are products of their environment it removes personal autonomy from these characters making them seem more innocent than they are. But with saying they could’ve just made better choices is disingenuous and ignores that where you come up from and where you live does affect you and it shouldn’t be discounted in understanding why a person makes their decisions they make.

Appreciate it friend, and I never miss a cook out, I’ll be there.

​@@TheVileEye 😂😂😂😂

@TheVileEye 2pac as Bishop in juice was pure wicked, that be a good episode; have you ever saw street smart with Morgan Freeman? He plays an evil,ruthless pimp ,you should check it out, many don't know about this film, one of the most wicked characters I ever seen

​​​@@TheVileEye I'm glad you brought up the CIA intentionally putting in plants as drug kingpins (Rick Ross) in most inner cities during the 1970s-80s It needs to be stressed to those ignorant to what has happened since then

Sorry for your loss. RIP to your brother. 🙏

Boys in the Hood was way too preachy. This movie was more honest for sure.

yeah, this movie makes Boyz in the Hood look like utter dog shit. Boyz in the Hood always felt like a made for TV movie compared to this. just some great cinematography from the Hughes Brothers

Interesting I've heard people say Boyz in the Hood was very realistic to them. But I know Boyz-n-the-Hood wasn't as nearly as violent as this movie is. I guess that's the appeal.

I feel the opposite.. this movie was cheesy and the characters had no redeeming qualities at all

So do I.

Gang violence is number 1 problem in black community

You view this as a horror movie? You from the hood?

Juice is a horror movie. A hood horror movie

@@jeremyblackwater439 yes it is more scary to me than most horror movies. I grew up on the wrong side of the tracks and I saw similar events

@@tjtharp603 oh ok I’m from the hood and saw similar but I was wondering if you were watching from an outsider’s perspective. I understand now

@@tjtharp603 I feel the same way about this movie. I went with my cousin to see it when it came out. Scared the shit out of me then. I was around 7 or 8. I’ve only seen it once or twice since then. I can’t. That last line and scene when Caine’s life was flashing before his eyes did something to my spirit lol.

on the topic of Lakeview Terrace watch Ray Liotta in Unlawful Entry that could be an ep (if you run dry i guess)

Do you think every black American grew up this way?

@@brianhoward5509he didn't say every. But it definitely exist.

@@supadupa6891 Black criminals exist? I know.

Careful! Some whites might deem that as 'woke' and start hating 😂

Yeah he will do something like Stringer Bell from The Wire

@@DJ-iu5bb he already did. Just a few weeks ago

But he’s yet to cover any gay villains so cancel him

It's inevitable, that he will do Rico from Paid N Full, God from In Too Deep, Frank Lucas from American Gangster, and Nino Brown from New Jack City respectively. I mean how can you leave these brutal kingpins off of something like this.

Same with Hilter.

You gotta be like that to be honest even before he killed anybody, people would talk crazy about him if something happened to him

I think Boyz is a better movie from a plot standpoint, but I like this movie more.

I mean, its a toss up, it's not a contest though

Both are great films for different reasons, they tell two different type of hood stories

Yes it is. I came to that conclusion a few years ago after saying the opposite. Boyz n the Hood had a Hollywood-like ending of Cuba Gooding and Nia Long going off and living happily ever after. M2S was much more stern (also not a coincidence that Caine and Jada Pinkett's characters were also headed to Atlanta as well. I think that was intentionally put in by the Hugh Bros)

Imo both are great films that excels in their own way. Boyz N The Hood focus more the importance of fatherhood and how it can change your life for the better or worse. Menace II Society focus more on the violence of the black community and how many people can ruin their own lives and others because of their wrong doings.

No they weren't. You're the Asian hate that the msm should've been talking about.

Yep, the Chinese and middle eastern communities profit off our backs till this very day. While they hate us, but they love our spending habits. Dr umar be tryna wake us up

*Korean

If you’re going to push a racial agenda, at least try to understand that not every Asian person is “Chinese.”

@@shahidabdoullakhanzorovr1564 Korean my brother in Christ, they were Korean.

That's funny but yea it shows the message ig

@@mrogun1974 thats racist

I agree.

CRT is not a history, you dolt.

What are you talking about?

@@shawnellesmith probably how white conservatives think teaching objective history is white genocide. Or something something "CrItiCaL RaCe ThEoRy BaD bEcAusE tV sAiD So😡" (even tho they have no fucking earthy clue what CRT even is or where it's even taught)