The movie opens as Caine and O-Dog, his heedless, violent friend, enter a Korean grocery store to buy a couple of beers. For him, "respect" is the product of intimidation: If you back down because you fear him, you "respect" him. He adopts the street values based on a corruption of the word "respect." He wants respect but has done nothing to deserve it. The tragedy of Caine's life is that he cannot stand back a little and get a wider view, see what alternatives are available. The film's narration tells us he is society's nightmare: "He's young, he's black, and he doesn't give a -." We see that it is more complicated than that. By the time he is in high school, Caine wears a beeper on his belt and is a small-time drug dealer. He takes an older neighborhood man as his mentor, only to see him go to prison. As a small boy he sees his father murder a man over a trivial matter.
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