![]() ![]() Seven years later Tre (Cuba Gooding Jr, who really does look a lot older than 17) is struggling to find his own path. ‘Boyz n the Hood’ opens in 1984, as ten-year-old Tre is sent to live with his dad Furious Styles (Laurence Fishburne) in South Central LA and falls in with a gang of local kids. But that just makes this re-release, part of the Black Star season at BFI Southbank, all the more relevant. ![]() In this era of Black Lives Matter and #Oscarssowhite it may feel like little has changed – the peace has notably failed to increase. ‘Increase the peace’ pleads the final frame of John Singleton’s angry, era-defining 1991 story of young black manhood on the streets of Los Angeles. ![]()
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