"Y'all wanna see a dead body?"
The depiction of 'hood life is very realistic, and in several cases highly disturbing.- A young Tre discovers a body that is decaying. The scary part? He's hardly bothered by it.
- Ricky looks up from his scratch ticket to see the Bloods' sedan is about ten feet away, with the guy already leveling the shotgun at him. There's absolutely no escape, he's dead and he knows it.
- The guy probably shot his leg first on purpose, to both slow him down and to make him suffer. Remember, all of this because Ricky simply was offended by Ferris' rude behavior.
- The men, before they were killed by Doughboy and his friends, are crawling away in agony and begging for their life.
- Tre is nearly shot at just by walking in the street. He didn't do or say anything, he only got in their way.
- Officer Coffrey appeared to be quite friendly to Tre as a child, but a few years later, he doesn't hesitate to threaten to shoot a now fully grown Tre. He hasn't done anything, no guns, no drugs, and yet Officer Coffrey was all and willing to kill him.
- The street party scene. Everyone is having a good time in their cars with one blasting rap music. Then, a machine pistol is being unloaded into the air, thereby prematurely ending the party. This was normal in South Central Los Angeles.
- While kinda doubling as a funny moment, Dooky is implied to have HIV/AIDS after learning he can still contract it even if the girls he sees only perform fellatio.
