This "Menace" does, from the first frames, showing the casual murder of a Korean couple in their convenience store, to the final fusillade of the drive-by shooting that kills the movie's protagonist and narrator, Caine.Ĭaine is shown as the essentially unparented child of an addictive mother (soon dead of an overdose) and a murderous father who guns down a man during a living room card game. Allen Hughes, one of the 21-year-old twin brothers who directed the movie "Menace II Society," says, "Our intention was to have the audience turn away." These two African American prodigies have made a stunning, troubling movie that compels contemplation of this question: In a nation saturated with violence, can a portrayal of violence be valuable because it is therapeutic? The answer may be: Yes, if the portrayal is so relentlessly realistic that it nearly sickens viewers and strengthens their resolve to enforce domestic tranquillity.
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