Meanwhile an otherwise unremarkable, antisocial,
adolescent white boy's skill at video games and deep knowledge of trivial ephemera will somehow save the world.
It makes no bones about indicting a segregated L.A. culture which discouraged black
boys from joining Cub Scout or
Boy Scout troops located in lily -
white communities, leaving the generally - fatherless African - American
adolescents to fend for themselves in the ghetto.