The Political Transformation
The political transformation
Singleton’s film, “Boyz N the Hood,” is one of his productions, and he is the director. The film is his work of 1991. The film develops a story on the life of Tre Styles, growing into a teenager with the peer group that has influenced him into drug abuse. The boy is seventeen years old, and his life has become an issue of great concern to his parents. Tre Styles has been put under strict rules by his father, Furious Styles, who also was brought up in the same environment. This paper, therefore, analyzes the film to illustrate how power and political sensitivity have achieved transformation in the movie.
Firstly, Furious Styles, the main character’s father, has set rules to ensure his son is changing for the better. Although he takes such a step, he does not closely watch what his son does every day. Therefore, Tres cannot change his character because of his strong affinity for alcoholism, and his peers cannot allow him (Ebert, 2019). I choose the scene because it has given out the clear relationship between the sensitization, which are the instructions from Tres’ father, and the implication of the power on the transformation of his son’s behavior. At long last, the son cannot transform because the power from the father was less than that from his peers.
Secondly, Tres is confronted by Dough, to leave the gang that has been misleading him, and focus on improving his future. Dough is generally a good person but also drinks a lot (Ebert, 2019). His effort to convince Tres to avoid the bad gang does not bear fruits because Dough himself is a drunkard and, therefore, does not behave like a good role model. I choose this scene because it will help me describe how sensitization can transform Tres’s life, although the goal is not reached. After all, Dough is not a good role model.
In the third scene, Tres is easily convinced by his peers to go out and undertake uncouth practices like drinking and violence (Ebert, 2019). Society itself tells more about what a child may be pushed into. This scene is helpful as it describes how powerful a peer group may become and how bad friends effectively win a person into bad deeds. In such a situation, sensitization is not likely to work if minimal monitoring of one’s deeds.
Generally, as discussed above, the power to sensitize one on their behavior and achieve transformation of an individual is of great significance. Once pulled into bad peer groups, rules, and instructions and lack of monitoring by Tres’ father has failed to achieve effective sensitization, and therefore, the son, Tres, finally does not change.
Works cited
Ebert, Roger. “Boyz N the Hood Movie Review & Film Summary (1991) | Roger Ebert.” Rogerebert.com, RogerEbert.com, 12 July 1991, www.rogerebert.com/reviews/boyz-n-the-hood-1991. Accessed 9 Mar. 2019.