Boyz in the Hood

In Boyz in the Hoods opening scene starts with a blacked out scene where you can't see anything that is happening but you can hear what is going on in the scene and the only thing that you can hear is the sound of gang members organizing a attack on a rival gang and then the sound of gunshots follow and then all you can hear is the sound of police sirens with it following with complete silence. This gives the audience the idea of what it was like for a gang member, the feeling that one day a rival gang might decide to remove you from the picture and how quicker one extreme can go to another extreme in such a short amount of time.

However, in the following scene it introduces the characters of the film in the year of 1984 when they are children who are living where all the gang violence like murder is very common and is not seen as scary to them any more that the people around them can be killed at any moment. The scene revolves around the four main characters that are on there way to school when they have the idea to check out the crime scene of a shooting that had happened recently and in this scene they talk about the shooting so casually like something like this happens everyday so gives the audience a brief idea of what their lives are like everyday. They talk about the shooting very casually once again showing the audience what it was like and how people reacted to it, with the next scene it shows their lives at school and their personalities when they are at school and out of the four characters they show the audience who is the main protagonist out of the group which is Tre Styles who is an only child who lives with his single mother and is shown in the scenes to be very smart significantly smarter than his other classmates. Altogether the opening of Boyz in the Hood shows what the life would be like for children stuck in a neighbourhood while gang attacks are common.