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Poor? Hood?

posted 7 years ago by kellycallie (728)
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Apart from the spate of random violence and gangsters these boys didn't seem to be coming from abysmal poverty. They had cars, nice clothes and decent homes. A lot of the problems they had were simply behavior issues amongst the different groups of guys rather than everything stemming from the supposed ''poverty''.

I know the director probably grew up in that area and to him that's what a ''hood'' is and where he wanted to set the story but it gets so much worse than that elsewhere. We all know that public housing projects are the absolute worst area a person could grow up in (apart from tent cities and homeless shelters, yes children are placed there too with their families). It would have been interesting if someone made a movie in the early 90's about life in the Cabrini Green housing projects in Chicago during that time. Goodness, could you imagine?

[–] redban (6318) 4 years ago

Furious's neighborhood didn't look that bad, externally. The streets were clean, organized. Tre also had nice clothes . People had cars.

But I think that was the point. Furious's neighborhood wasn't that bad (especially compared to the mother's neighborhood, which we see briefly in the opening). And that's exactly why the mother sent him there. She wanted the best neighborhood that was possible for Tre.

The movie didn’t intend for Furious’s neighborhood to be the worst of the worst