Set It Off
The story is based on four women who grew up in
Los Angeles ghetto. Stony has had to act as a parent to her little brother, ever since her parents died. She worked at many jobs to make a future for him at UCLA. When her brother gets shot, by the police mistakenly. Stony get disillusioned with her life. She decides to join her friends to rob a bank.
Cleo, who is a lesbian, only wants to customize her car. As shown in the movie, she is expended with her car-stealing skills, she is the only character motivated by greed.
Tisean is very shy single mother. She is a mother to a son. She struggles to make ends meet. Tisean can’t afford a baby- sitter. She brings her son to work, which results her son to swallowing something poisonous. Therefore, her son is taken away by the protective services. Until Tisean can afford to hire a babysitter, so Tisean was willing to join her friends robbing a bank.
Frankie is a bank teller who gets fired, and ends up working in the janitorial service along with her three other friends. Frankie was fired, because she knew one of the robberies that happened while she was on duty.
The four women notice that the police are on to them, and they decide; they have no choice but to leave town and go their separate ways. After they hit up one more ban, which is owned by Keith, whom stony has been seeing for the past couple of weeks. Stony stalls Keith away from the bank, so that he wouldn’t be present during the robbery. Things go bad when the police are able to respond, before the three women exit the bank.
The police almost resolved the confrontation peacefully, talking to Stony and Tisean into putting their weapons down. Cleo isn’t giving up, and still continues to hold her weapon. The three woman escape to their get away car which pulls away, Although Tisean was wounded during the fight; she dies in an abandon car. The three women stole another car and onto their escape.
Stony escapes with her bag of money to a bus headed out of town. She waits for the bus to depart. She sees Frankie coming to her, but she is tracked down but the polices a helicopter, before she can get there. A direction tries to take Frankie into surrendering. She decides to take a run for it, and she is shot dead by the police. Stony watches as the bus moves, Stony goes to
Mexico . She prepares a new life. In the end of the story, It s a scene where stony tries to get rid of her old identity.
While many Hollywood films in early and mid 1990s dealt with theproblems of black Americans, SET IT OFF was one of the few to dealwith the harsh realities experienced by black women -underprivileged group that, apart from racism, had to suffer from sexism, something coming from the both sides of racial divides.
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