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* Letters2Numbers: Obvious.The title uses Roman numerals.
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* ForegoneConclusion: Subverted. One would get the impression that, being the narrator, Caine must [[spoiler: survive the movie]]. It turns out he's telling the story [[spoiler: from his death bed.]]
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* MamasBabyPapasMaybe: Ilena, distraught over an apparent pregnancy, claims that [[spoiler:Caine]] is the only person she's been sexually active with. He contests this, and moreover insists that protection was used; however, neither is a sure bet: while Ilena has [[ReallyGetsAround a reputation]], a condom doesn't always ensure safe sex. [[spoiler:The truth [[RiddleForTheAges never comes out]].]]
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* DownerEnding: [[spoiler:By the end, Caine wishes to straighten his life and start anew by going to Atlanta. However, he gets into a fight with Ilena's cousin, which reaches back to his grandparents, who promptly kick him out of the house. On the day he's meant to leave, the cousin gathers a bunch of cronies and do a drive by, promptly killing Caine--as well as Sharif. The latter was going to Kansas himself and spent most of the film preaching about the Muslim religion in an effort to turn his friends' lives around. Things don't seem to turn out any better for the other charactes either, with a quick flack forward showing O-Dog being arrested, presumably for murdering the Korean couple, and Ronnie losing the man he loved and moving to Atlanta with her son Anthony, unsure whether or not she can support him by herself.]]
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* DownerEnding: [[spoiler:By the end, Caine wishes to straighten his life and start anew by going to Atlanta. However, he gets into a fight with Ilena's cousin, which reaches back to his grandparents, who promptly kick him out of the house. On the day he's meant to leave, the cousin gathers a bunch of cronies and do a drive by, promptly killing Caine--as well as Sharif. The latter was going to Kansas himself and spent most of the film preaching about the Muslim religion in an effort to turn his friends' lives around. Things don't seem to turn out any better for the other charactes characters either, with a quick flack flash forward showing O-Dog being arrested, presumably for murdering the Korean couple, and Ronnie losing the man he she loved and moving to Atlanta with her son Anthony, unsure whether or not she can support him by herself.]]
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* DownerEnding: [[spoiler:By the end, Caine wishes to straighten his life and start anew by going to Atlanta. However, he gets into a fight with Ilena's cousin, which reaches back to his grandparents, who promptly kick him out of the house. On the day he's meant to leave, the cousin gathers a bunch of cronies and do a drive by, promptly killing Caine--as well as Sharif. The latter was going to Kansas himself and spent most of the film preaching about the Muslim religion in an effort to turn his friends' lives around.]]
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* DownerEnding: [[spoiler:By the end, Caine wishes to straighten his life and start anew by going to Atlanta. However, he gets into a fight with Ilena's cousin, which reaches back to his grandparents, who promptly kick him out of the house. On the day he's meant to leave, the cousin gathers a bunch of cronies and do a drive by, promptly killing Caine--as well as Sharif. The latter was going to Kansas himself and spent most of the film preaching about the Muslim religion in an effort to turn his friends' lives around. Things don't seem to turn out any better for the other charactes either, with a quick flack forward showing O-Dog being arrested, presumably for murdering the Korean couple, and Ronnie losing the man he loved and moving to Atlanta with her son Anthony, unsure whether or not she can support him by herself.]]
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* MistreatmentInducedBetrayal: Caine beating the tar out of Chauncey compels the latter to [[spoiler:show the tape to the police.]]
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* MistreatmentInducedBetrayal: Caine beating the tar out of Chauncey compels the latter to [[spoiler:show the O-Dog's robbery tape to the police.]]
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* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: The security tape of O-Dog killing the Korean store owners is clearly meant to invoke the security cam footage of Latasha Harlins, a 15-year-old black girl killed by a Korean liquor store owner over a bottle of orange juice two years prior. Back in 1993, this was a hot topic of discussion and the allusion would definitely be understood by audiences.
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* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: The security tape of O-Dog killing the Korean store owners is clearly meant to invoke the security cam footage of Latasha Harlins, a 15-year-old black girl killed by a Korean liquor store owner over a bottle of orange juice two years prior.prior, one of the catalysts for the Los Angeles riots. Back in 1993, this was a hot topic of discussion and the allusion would definitely be understood by audiences.
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* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: The security tape of O-Dog killing the Korean store owners is clearly meant to invoke the security cam footage of Latasha Harlins, a 15 year old black girl killed by a Korean liquor store owner over a bottle of orange juice. Back in 1993, this was a hot topic of discussion and the allusion would definitely be understood by audiences.
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* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: The security tape of O-Dog killing the Korean store owners is clearly meant to invoke the security cam footage of Latasha Harlins, a 15 year old 15-year-old black girl killed by a Korean liquor store owner over a bottle of orange juice.juice two years prior. Back in 1993, this was a hot topic of discussion and the allusion would definitely be understood by audiences.
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* ChekhovsGun: The surveillance tape of the armed robbery eventually comes back [[spoiler:to bite O-Dog when Chauncey releases the tape to the police as revenge against Caine--who escapes arrest only because he is murdered before it can happen]].
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* ChekhovsGun: The surveillance tape of the liquor store armed robbery eventually [[spoiler:eventually comes back [[spoiler:to to bite O-Dog when Chauncey releases the tape to the police as revenge against Caine--who escapes arrest only because he is murdered before it can happen]].
