Murder and other forms of meaningless violence are in Caine’s bloodline, part of his parents’ poisoned legacy. Eventually, they catch up with each other. Like the protagonist of William Friedkin’s 1985 thriller To Live In Die In L.A., Caine spends Menace II Society chasing death. The question isn’t whether he will die, but how and when. From the beginning, death seems to be stalking Caine Lawson (Tyrin Turner), the film’s protagonist and narrator. It doesn’t happen to your grandmother at the end of a long struggle it happens to your brother, your cousin, your niece, or the guy down at the corner store-anyone who was in the wrong place at the wrong time. For the Watts survivors of the Hughes brothers’ incendiary 1993 film Menace II Society, death isn’t an abstract concept it’s everywhere, as much a part of the atmosphere as oxygen.
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