This week we are watching a movie in Sociology called The Tale of The bronx , its about a boy name Calogero or C for short. It was about the story of his life at age 9 and 17. Its based in a italian neighborhood in the bronx and the conflict between blacks and whites, the fight of Calogero between his dad and sunny a notorious gangster ( Who's a straight thug). Well, while watching this movie i noticed alot things, one that the italian culture is to stick together, family is everything and in some cases to just be BA. There is a certain Social Structure, with different roles some with more power than others for example it goes Sunny the neighborhood boss who got the most money, his workers, the working class, then everyone else. The children always respected there parents. Everyone in the neighbor hood looked out for each other. There was also a different social reaction between people when it came to sunny. The people were scared of him but respected him for protection. Since he was the boss if you stepped out of line your gonna get shot or hurt. But if a bunch of bikers like in the movie come to the neighborhood and cause trouble and you need some ones help, Sunny's there and he acts like a gentleman to the bikers but the bikers then step out of line again so sunny and bis workers take care of them.
Thats what the movie was like from my prospective.
I agree with you that sunny gets respect beacuse he is feared and he takes control of situations like the biker scene. He first allows them to have a drink at the bar but when they disrespect the bar tendor he takes action beacuse everyone watched out for others in that neighborhood.
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Max you got the name of the movie wrong. Bro. I also agree that it was in their nature to protect each other while in their own neighborhood. I think sometimes it went really far though with murder.
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