Set It Off (1996): An analysis

Set It score (1996) An analysisWhat is the mformer(a) fucking procedure when you cook a poor boy to your head (Set it Ooff- Frankie). Those ar the last words Frankie says before she is savor and killed by the LAPD. Set it off Off is a crime movie, that follows the struggle and snuff its of quartet different, but similar African-American women in the projects of Los Angeles. t extinct ensemble their independent struggles adopt together to create the climax to the movie. It sets the tone and craps their lives altogether relate gumption to each other. The story focuses on 4 main characters Cleo (Queen Latifah), flinty (Jade Pinkett- Smith), Tisean (Kimberley Elise), and Frankie (Vivica A. Fox). Cleo, Frankie, Tisean, and Stony are all(prenominal) best friends and realize their personal struggles and all jeer they want to get up and put of the projects and begin to live the American dream.Set it off is an action, crime drama that takes settle in the projects of LA. All of the female characters have lived in the projects their whole emotional statespan and find that displumebing bullion boxs would be their only way out. Frankie, having worked at beachs for years prior, feels that her recognizeledge of the camber transcription meant that they could get in and out of the banks quickly and with a make out of money. At first Stony and T.T. dont agree with the idea, until they have their witness struggle that pushes them all over the limit. Stonys brother, Stevie, was brutally murdered by the LAPD, and T.T.s son was taking taken by child run for a work related stroke. After these tragedies happened to the other two ladies, they agree to serve snare the banks. At first they are successful and they get forth the first few time, until they hit it up downtown Federal where police detectives just gave a brief on the geartrain of robberies respond to the silent alarm. erstwhile they arrive back at the bank they, are in a take over off wi th three of the women and T.T. ends up getting shot and later dies in Frankies arms. This leads to a police interestingness of the remaining girls and as well the death of Frankie and Cleo.Frankie out of the four women had the best emotional state she recently received a promotion at her job, where she is a bank teller. This all changes when a couple of thugs from the projects come into the bank and rob it. Frankie is let up to give up the money so one of the robbers grabs an older gentlewoman and shoots her right in front of her. After the looting she is interviewed by detectives from the LAPD somewhat her relation with the robbers. After the detectives are finished with the interview, her node harrys her on the fleck for the fact that she knew the robbers. After she was fire she joked with the girls about how they could rob banks and get away from all their struggles. Cleo having troubles of her own is excited and wanting to go through with the plans. When she is fired from the bank her pursuit of the American Dream is shattered, she sees that robbing banks is quick and easy money.Cleo is a crazy girl from the Acorn projects of Los Angeles she is up for anything that gets her blood pumping. She is in a assassinated end job and is ready to do what she has to do to get her and her girl out of the hood. She feels that if she doesnt get out of the hood shell either be dead or in jail, and that to her is non an survival. She really hasnt had parents around in her life so she feels that her girls are all she has in this world, and she is really closing curtain with Stony and relates to her the most. Cleos American Dream is fixing up her 66 impala and smoking weed in a middle class resemblance where bullets dont fly by.Stony has had to grow up fast. Her parents were killed in an automobile accident when she was a young teen. She had to then start providing for her and her little brother Stevie. He was bound for UCLA, but due to finciancal issues he was not sure if he was going to be able to go. So her being the provider and not seeing any other option she has sex with a employ gondola sales men for money. Stevie had recently graduated from high shoal and was college bound, when he was coming back from a friends house and the SWAT group was doing a raid on bank robbing suspects and mistook him for the suspect. They asked him to freeze and show his men , while intrusting out his snuff its he pulled out the feeding bottle of champagne he also had in his hands, they SWAT team also mistook that as a gun and vicious shot him to death. When she sees her brother she acts as any one would having lost a loved one and stir up to the floor and sobs. After loosing her brother she feels that she should also get out of the ghetto and agrees to help rob banks. Having to help can her brother with little income she feels what Tisean is going through and they can relate. Stony now has no reason to live anymore her friends is all she has and she know that living in the hood could jeopardize her life and her friends lives too.Tisean is a single mother she doesnt say much and keeps to herself. She works along side Cleo and Stony at Luthers Janitorial Services, but due to the fact that her boss Luther takes taxes out of her paychecks, she cant afford a bodgesitter and has to bring her baby to work with her. Her baby gets into some cleaning products and gets rushed to the hospital, where child services takes the baby from her until she can prove to be stable enough to raise the baby. This makes Tisean very depressed and in need of money fast so she also agrees to rob banks to get her son back. Tisean just wants her baby back, her son means the world to her and she feels lost without him. So having him back in her life would be her American Dream.Having all agreed to rob the banks they rely on Frankies insight on banks to get them through it, Cleos connection for weapons, and Stonys leadership and driveway savvy to get through their destruction. At the first bank looting T.T gets nervous and backs out at the bank, so it leaves the other three to rob the bank. They all do well for it being their first robbery and they make away with 12,000 dollars, but that only being 3,000 a piece they know it is not enough to leave the hood so they decide to rob a few more banks. After all four women successfully rob a few more banks they need some place to keep the money so they decide on a locoweed duct at the building they clean.This is a good plan until Luther, their boss, finds the money and steals it so they go on a hunt for him. Knowing that all there American Dreams are at stake they go on a manhunt for their boss. They find him at a motel with a prostitute, and they bust in and demand the money form him at gun point. Cleo turns her back on him and he pulls a gun on Cleo. That leaves Tisean with no resource, but to shot and kill Luther. This puts the girls in a panic and they decide to rob business district Federal, a major bank in downtown LA.Knowing that this bank is big and has a lot of money this would be their last prognosis to achieve the dreams they have set out to achieve.Moment s before the robbery at the bank the same two LAPD detectives from in the beginning gave a brief at the bank about the robbers, so when they go to rob the bank the detectives are not far when the silent alarm goes off. at once they arrive at the bank the detectives and the women are in a stand off when a guard at the bank decides to take matters into his own hands, and he starts to shoot, hitting Tisean in the chest. The other women return fire and pull Tisean out of the bank into the get a way political machine. They shot out is know in the streets of downtown and their get a way car is taking heavy fire so they have to switch cars.Once they arrive at Cleos car they go to start her car and move the money, but by then its too late. Tisean had lost a lot of blood and passes away in Frankies arms. They leave her there in the car and proceed in Cleos car, take over having the police right on their tails. They have no time to think so they decide to split up in a tunnel. Frankie and Stony run with half of the money, while Cleo continues in the car until she hits a roadblock and her car cant take no more. Cleo being the fight she is gets out with a machine gun and opens fire on the LAPD and she is shot to death by them. The other are still running and Frankie gets surrounded by the police , and one of the detectives approaches her unarmed to chatter some reason into her and have her surrender. Jail not being an option for her she pulls her gun and ask the detective What is the mother fucking procedure when you have a gun to your head (Set it off- Frankie). She then starts running when an officer shoots her in the back and killing her while Stony is looking this from a bout bus on its way to Mexico. Stony on the other hand gets away and gets into Mexico, having so many m emories about all that she lost her feels that she call for change so she cuts her hair and drives to the beach.All four women made the choice to take part in the violation of the law, but all four saw it to be a way out of their personal struggles and live the lavish life they saw advertise everywhere. Although three of the four women died that was all a price the women were willing to take, they knew it was that or the streets.