"Baby Boy" opens with a shockingly surreal image of the main protagonist, 20-year-old Jody, curled up in the fetal comfort of the womb, still tethered by an umbilical cord and surrounded by the muted thunder of his mother's heartbeat.

The scene is jarring, and the accompanying voice-over bluntly conveys the premise around which director John Singleton has built his film: Black men in American society are emotional infants, kept from developing into adults by an oppressive system that robs them of family support, ambition, and opportunity.
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John Singleton has gone back to the Boyz and Girlz of the Hood for his new film Baby Boy.

Singleton, nominated for two Oscars for writing and directing Boyz N The Hood a decade ago, completes what he calls his "Hood trilogy" with the new film. Poetic Justice (1993) is the middle film in the series.
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