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Media Studies Coursework Washington Post Review, - The writer firstly compares "Boyz N the Hood" to an article in a "major metropolitan newspaper" this comparison immediately discredits the film's claim to historical importance that the writer must no doubt be aware of. To complement the film's poignancy Desson Howe describes the film as "often" tearing "at the heart" before equating the film to the "rap equivalent of a classroom lecture". This criticises the film's alleged preachiness and the film's similarity (in the vernacular it uses and issues it raises) to rap music (a music form that, at the time the article was written, was largely un-respected and frowned upon). In the writer's plot synopsis he describes "cold statistics" as being "slapped" on screen; he is using onomatopoeia to portray the directorial clumsiness of John Singleton however the writer also praises the film at the end of his plot synopsis by describing the...

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