Bosco Plot Summary
Bosco is the newest release on Peacock this month. It’s the true story of Quawntay “Bosco” Adams. A man who was sentenced to 35 years in prison for marijuana possession. Once incarcerated, he plots his escape to be there for the birth of his daughter, as he wants to create a life for her that he never had.
How is Bosco a commentary on the prison system?
Bosco may be small in budget and minimal in set pieces, but it has a lot to say about the prison system and how black men were often given longer sentences than white men for the same crime. Bosco gets 35 years for marijuana. Wow, we have definitely come a long way from sentences like that in the U.S.
What Bosco was arrested for may get you a few years of that these days but he gets a big chunk of his life taken from him. There’s a lot to be said about how crooked guards can be inside the walls of a jail. Yes, it’s a trope we see in prison movies from time to time, but you can tell how they are conveyed to the audience that they’re a metaphor for the brutality of the system and how nobody is really safe in prison.
What is Bosco’s plan?
From day one, it is his plan to escape prison to go be with his baby mama for the birth of his daughter. His way of doing that is convoluted but involves him finding a way into the ventilation system and making his way out of a vent on the side of the building. However, that is not all that he does when he sets his plan in motion. He has an aid in this process.
Who is Tootie in the film?
Tootie is Bosco’s father, who is played by Tyrese Gibson. We meet him in the opening scene when Bosco is a young kid. Tootie is a gang leader in charge of a crew of Crips in south-central Los Angeles. Tootie has the persona that any gang leader would have.
He’s tough, hardheaded, and only knows one way to solve problems. He appears in a few flashback scenes sprinkled throughout the movie. He brings Bosco along with him on a drug deal; they are surprised by undercover cops, and both are thrown in prison.
Who is Tammy and why does she help Bosco?
Tammy is a woman who posts an ad on a Lonely Hearts paper. Bosco calls the number on the ad, and Tammy is on the other line. Tammy pays him a visit behind bars after a few phone conversations. When they meet in prison, let’s just say that Tammy is not what Bosco imagined Tammy to look like, appearance-wise.
Still, they strike up a relationship of sorts, and Tammy agrees to help him when he breaks free, but she does not know what is in it for her. She waits for him in a truck in the parking lot once he escapes. It is never mentioned if Bosco has feelings for her or if he is just using her.
Why does Bosco turn himself in?
Bosco realizes something once he is on the outside: it is a mistake for him to escape prison despite the faultiness of his prison sentence. In a rundown motel, he and Tammy discuss their uncertain future together, and it is here that he decides to turn himself back into the hands of the police.
He tells Tammy to go home and tell the police about his whereabouts. Bosco comes to the realization that being a fugitive of the law, he does nothing but put those that he loves in harm’s way. The film ends with a close-up of him lying on the bed, accepting his fate through the dialogue of his narration. The cops storm in and take him away.
We learn in the film’s final moments that, in real life, Bosco has now been released from prison, and he actively helps out in his community and is a major part of his daughter’s life.
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