![]() ![]() 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. ![]() However just before he is about to leave for Atlanta, he is gunned down by a rival black gang, because he stomped on Ilena's Cousin.As a small boy he sees his father murder a man over a trivial matter. Afterwards, Caine and O-Dog flee the store.Ĭaine and O-Dog eventually learn they are wanted for the assault on the liquor store and Caine decides to leave town. O-Dog correctly deduces that the storekeeper was hiding most of the money in his clothes. O-Dog opens the cash register and is angered that there is only six dollars inside the cash register. ![]() O-Dog then goes to the cash register and is annoyed that Caine did not open the cash register. O-Dog manages to find the camera and shoots the storekeeper's wife. O-Dog then attempts to coerce the storekeeper's wife to stop screaming and hand over the camera. O-Dog tells Caine to take all of the money out of the cash register as Caine watches in shock. An argument ensues and the irritated O-Dog shoots the storekeeper, causing the storekeeper's wife to scream. He has participated in robberies and murders, but is more remorseful than his friend O-Dog.Ĭaine Lawson and his best friend Kevin Anderson (O-Dog) enter a local store to buy malt liquor, as the Korean storekeeper and his wife eye them suspiciously. Kaydee Lawson, also known as Caine, is the main villainous protagonist in the 1993 crime film Menace II Society. My grandpa asked me one time.if I care whether I live or die. I guess in the end.it all catches up with you. I had done too much to turn back.and I had done too much to go on. After that, I knew it was gonna be a long summer. But you never knew what was gonna happen or when. It was funny like that in the 'hood sometimes. ![]() Came out an accessory to murder and armed robbery. ![]()
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