![]() That’s how the trip begins, at least: It ends with the two store owners, a middle-aged Korean couple who had warily watched Caine and O-Dog’s every move, starkly dead. In the opening moments of the 1993 film Menace II Society, Caine and O-Dog, two young black men growing up on the streets of Los Angeles, step into a convenience store to grab 40s. This monthly column, The Politics of American Movies, will explore everything from racially progressive Westerns and anti-fascist comedies to documentaries about the working class and popcorn flicks with subversive bite. And we, the people, are hungry for political art. The essence of the current cultural discourse is that everything we watch is at least latently political.
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