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Director Cameo: [John Singleton] the mailman.
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Ricky: Hey D, why don't you go to the store for me.
Doughboy: Nigga, I ain't the one she told to go get it, its yo wife.
Ricky: Look man, she ain't my wife.
Doughboy: She may as well be, Y'all got a family and all.
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Many of these points are the utterances of the characters. There are a number of "characters," but most of them are the same person, the director, John Singleton, who uses his characters as mouthpieces for his own ideas. When young Tre points to the map of Africa and says that's where the first man came from, it's Singleton talking. When the football recruiter makes a speech on the improbability of making the NFL, it's Singleton talking. In one of history's worst lines of dialogue, Tre's father asks Tre how the SAT went, then casually notes, "of course those tests are culturally biased, except for the math parts." Yep, it's Singleton talking. We don't get to actually hear one of the "culturally biased" questions. We're supposed to take Singleton's word for it, I suppose. (Didn't Singleton see STAND AND DELIVER? "Those people" pass "those tests" when they study for them. Oops, I forgot--"those tests" were all math parts.) When that line is dropped with a dull thud, I realized that the whole minor thread about taking the test was a set-up for that one lousy line. The piece de resistance of pontification occurs under a billboard in a vacant lot. Tre's father's lecture on gentrification attracts a variety of neighborhood regulars, from dope dealers to the perpetually unemployed. But their discussion sounds like a MacNeil/Lehrer roundtable on urban issues. Where's the m*th*rf*ck*n' verisimilitude?
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