clockers is a movie about inheritance: the way we inherit violence from one another through each generation the way that rodney inherited his violence from errol, and strike inherits his violence from rodney, and shorty inherits his violence from strike when he finally kills errol. errol's religious backstory may seem to imply that the original source of that inheritance is the devil. there is another kind of inheritance at the end of the movie when shorty receives strike's train set, and in doing so, inheriting strike's love for trains. when strike leaves on a train to a new life far away from the city, it symbolizes and explains his love of trains since they represent an escape from the cycle of violence he inherited to a new place he can go to begin a different kind of inheritance, maybe this time for love. one of the best movies ever made.
theres a line that song you posted it goes, "and what of love - is that a point of view?" i think about that line often. i'd be interested in hearing what some of you might think that means.
