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Really liked the ending (spoilers)

posted 16 years ago by MastaQD
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I thought the ending was one of the most powerful things in this film. All the "bad" guys got off and never really got what was coming to them on screen. In fact, in the last shot you see them seemingly doing better than ever. Then Diquan gets locked up and we never really find out how his girlfriend and kid turn out. This movie was a very realistic, bold, approach to how life can be on the streets. To me, it was just as powerful as Boys in the Hood and Menace II Society but yet I don't hear this film mentioned with those. It's very underrated in my opinion.

[–] bob1701a 15 years ago

Where did they get the idea that a man would voluntarily go to prison for life for a murder he didn't commit, and in doing so, abandon his kid and his girlfriend?

Let me guess....they think he would because he's black and therefore has no brains, no pride, and no honor....right?

Just another bunch of stereotypical, racist crap, from our friends at anything for a buck HBO.

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[–] manofsteel4455 12 years ago

All the ending showed me is that there really doesn't need to be any evidence for a person to be sent to prison.

You want to play the game, you'd better know the rules, love.
-Harry Callahan

[–] taxidriver8989 10 years ago

He realized back on the streets he was a dead man and the Amoral Justice System wasn't going help him better his circumstances. If he had gave up the person who killed the boy in stairway his family would been targeted for retaliation.

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[–] Bladebrown22 10 years ago

There is a thing called witness protection. They could have moved his family.
I'm Blade brown, the Dopest, illest,hypest brotha, on the block!

[–] taxidriver8989 10 years ago

Local cities that do have them are under budget. Thus need to utilize only in their most major cases. He would never been able to leverage a fish big enough after his cover was blown.

TERRIERS/The Chicago Code R.I.P
Broadcast TV is an Eminence front