Ilena's Pregnancy
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aag12345-1 — 14 years ago(September 11, 2011 11:42 AM)
I believe you that Hughes said that in the commentary, but there is NOTHING in the movie to imply that she's being anything but truthful about the pregnancy.
When Caine meets her in the parking lot and first puts the moves on her, it's all his doing and she's angry at first that he blocked her in. Then, we don't see enough of her to have an opinion of where she's coming from. The way it plays in the movie, she's just a plot device to create the conflict that gets Caine killed - when you're thinking instead that he's about to have problems from the guy he beat up at the party, or getting busted for the grocery store murder and the videotape.
I thought that was the point Hughes was trying to make, that when you're living that life in that neighborhood, the $hit that jumps up and gets you isn't even the things that you're expecting to. I'm not sure how having Ilena scamming would improve the story, though it would show another facet of "the life", and emphasize even more the theme that Caine was being killed over some bull$hit. The way it plays now, you do feel he has some responsibility for blowing off the girl he got pregnant.
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PurpleLemonadeDinosaur — 13 years ago(May 25, 2012 11:53 AM)
I do kind of find her pregnancy iffy. What would be the point of getting Cain killed? How would she explained that to her child? "Oh, your father was killed by some guys I knew because he wouldn't claim you as a child." It would be very unsettling, so I don't think she had any intentions of getting him killed. She could have been lying, but they didn't give us enough reason as to why she would.
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fiatlux-1 — 12 years ago(April 09, 2013 12:54 AM)
I agree it never even occured to me that she was lying about being pregnant. Even if he wore a condom they aren't 100% effective.
I agree. Especially if they fooled around before he put the condom on.
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RobSac — 12 years ago(April 15, 2013 12:21 AM)
The fact that she goes right to her gangster cousin for retaliation shows her level of class. Those bullets killed a guy who wasn't even in a gang, and who dedicated his life to getting Caine's crew to stop banging, and they also came within an inch of killing a small child. That girl was trash.
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everydayboredom1980 — 12 years ago(June 21, 2013 09:30 AM)
Interesting.
I never thought she was lying. The way they filmed the scene, she looks worried and down. She's in a robe, she doesn't have any lights on which adds to the "sad" effect of the scene.
I mean I guess they didn't want to make it over-the-top, like say the movie Friday when Cube's girl is accusing him of cheating when she's the one in bed with a guy next to her..but it seemed like the way the filmed the scene where Ilena calls Caine, that she's telling the truth. -
its_heather_ok — 12 years ago(July 10, 2013 06:17 PM)
It seems as if most people missed the scene where Sharif told Caine he hoped he wore a condom because he knew several dudes that had been with Ilena. Yet Ilena told Caine that he was the only one she had been with. I think that was supposed to show that she was a liar.
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ladyjay0786 — 12 years ago(July 31, 2013 08:36 PM)
It seems as if most people missed the scene where Sharif told Caine he hoped he wore a condom because he knew several dudes that had been with Ilena. Yet Ilena told Caine that he was the only one she had been with. I think that was supposed to show that she was a liar.
I actually must have missed that scene. Well then it all makes sense now that she was lying. I mean I always thought like someone else mentioned that her pregnancy was iffy. I never thought she wasn't pregnant. I just thought if she was, it wasn't Caine's and that she was just pinning it on him for some odd reason.