1. When that dude killed some boy because he beat him badly at basketball.
2. When that same dude kill Fresh's girlfriend and Fresh watches her die cuz he cant do nuthin about it.
3. Fresh's sister getting *beep* by Esteban while drugged.
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Treat others the way you want to be treated.
I think that all three events you mentioned in the film were disgusting and difficult to watch; however, it is a little difficult to feel sympathy for Fresh's sister because the girl was exactly where she wanted to be and she made that clear to Fresh earlier in the film.
shareWhen Michael is talking alone with Nichole and he says, "Aunt Frances don't think you 'aint nothin'...she thinks you're somethin'."
Nichole replies bitterly, "Well, Aunt Frances is a saint...she loves every dog in the street same as me. It don't mean nothin' to be loved by no *beep* saint."
After a pause, Michael says softly, "I love you..." and it hits her and the scene ends. That gets me even as I type this!
The other, of course is the final scene.
The scene you mentioned is extremely powerful. Michael's care and love for his sister is very touching.
shareI just wanted to say that this movie very nearly brought me to tears, in the end when he breaks down and cries, i just felt so much for him, amazing performance from Sean Nelson. Did anyone else get as sucked into the emotion behind the film, like when he saw his drugged out sister, he was just so digusted and sad.
Just on him crying at the end, i know people have given good reasons why, but when i watched the film, when i was 11 or 12 i think, i felt the reason he cired was 1) because he could now be a kid, and 2) at the eond of all of it, all he had left was his father who as people have said, couldnt even look at him, he'd won his game, but he had no one.
That's just my thoughts.
I think Fresh cried in that last scene bcause he was tired...he was tired of being the tough guy...tired of putting on a front...tired of having to run things...tired of caring about people who didn't care about him...tired of watching people he cared about walk out of his life or leave involuntarily...I think Fresh was just tired of it all and couldn't hold it together anymore.
sharethat is a very good point
shareGood points. I also think his father was the only one with whom he could safely let down his guard, the only one who wouldn't use him as a means to an end, the only one who wasn't mired in something. At that moment, the boy could finally lay down the heavy burdens he had carried throughout the film.
Also, in a way, his chess games with his father were the closest thing he had to the childhood innocence a normal kid his age would have. After everything he had been through, he had surpassed his father as a strategist, had taken the former master's lessons and used them in the real world...those few moments of childhood innocence were now gone.
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I agree with that. I posted in another thread, that I think he was crying because it was over and the fact that even then when it was over, nothing for him would ever be the same, he had changed dramatically, he was a man and he was crying for not only the loss of all of his friends but crying for the loss of himself his innocence his childhood. After all of that, what did he have to look forward to?
shareYeah you're right about that, but to Fresh, I think, his father was like an oasis in a desert. Every time he went through the hardships, his father was the one who give him sanity in a world to Fresh seemed so insane. Although the father didn't know about what he was doing for his son, it meant so much for Fresh that he was able to keep his cool, even around dangerous situations.
shareI know everybody got theys own opinions about the end part so... I personally think that he cryin cause he just got done talkin to the police that night about moving cause it wasn't safe no more and he said he didn't wanna live in no more projects. And that meant leaving his pops too. So the next day, when he went to go play chess with him, I think he was gonna tell him but broke out after his pops said, "You sink or swim on your own today, cause I ain't always gonna be there to hold ya hand for you." I think that hit him and he couldn't work it up to tell him cause he was exactly right.
Other than that I think Main Man Fresh was MAD hardcore for his age, watchin Corky beat down and kill Jake an all. I also think that this was a damn good movie cause BOTH Corky & Esteban Told him he was gonna come out on top and be "THE MAN". And he did. What made Fresh EVEN MORE of a geinus is that he even planed out and got Esteban AND Corky to hate on James above Chilies to get rid of him cause he was bangin his sister, and was also a base seller. And get this, he got them all to go there right when the train be passin by so the noise would be kinda low. What a Smart little G!!!!
Other than the the little boy and girlfriend being killed on the playground, the whole movie really got to me. Just think of Fresh as this lonely orphan kid living with his aunt and about a thousand cousins. He lost the little girl that he loved and the mourns love and attention from the addict sister that he adores and cares so much for. The Kid had it pretty rough.
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the playground scene was the onl part that almost made me cry
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Cuz my hustle will neva stop like a car wit bad breaks
I really like this movie precisely for these reasons..I've seen a lot of "hood" movies that deal with inner-city life including Clockers and Menace II Society, and the best ones to me are always the ones that deal with not just the poverty and the way it controls action, but the emotional impact of it. Like this movie, which I just watched for my second time, shows the impact of the drugs on his emotions and how the emotions in TURN force him into his course of action. Not just "I want respect so I'm going to kill someone" or some simple revenge, as I see so often when watching movies like this.
Also "Do the Right Thing," which I also watched today for my second time (and which Samuel L. Jackson is also very good in by the way), the whole racism issue boiling over into emotion which then caused the movie's climax. . . .very emotional, if not as profoundly sad or disturbing as Fresh, and so very good.
sanbudthegreat wrote: "Wait, didn't anyone think that the main lead little kid was generally an evil bastard though? I mean, getting his sister and himself out of the projects or not, he had a lot of *beep* people killed..."
When the hero in a story kills all the bad guys, we don't call HIM an evil bastard.
Everyone who died, deserved to die. Except for the two kids on the playground. And Fresh avenged their murders.
I was so hurt over the scene where Fresh watches as Rosie died. I knew that the basketball kid was going to get shot and it was sad but I was so not prepared to see that little girl holding her neck, suffocating to death and twitching. It was just too much for me.
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