Bronx Story

I really liked this movie. I think the way C was molded from a young age from all the different groups wrapped up this unit well. The thing I think was the most interesting was the way the different ethnicities "stuck to their own kind". The way, like Sal pointed out in class, the neighborhoods were separated like country borders that were difficult to pass when you were not welcome. All of this reminded me of the movie Freedom Writers. Like C and his family of Italians, the teens in Freedom Writers were bound by their ethnicity. In Freedom Writers, there was no question you always stuck to your own kind. It created alot of gang violence, just as it had in Bronx Story. I think in each story the characters had the habit of having close ties with their own kind because of tradition and habit. They were taught as infants that they had to always protect their own. All of the focus on their own ethnicity created a strong sense of prejudice thereby creating gangs that would attack eachother as soon as they felt threatened. I think C did not have the same sense of strong prejudice as his friends did because of the way his father and Sunny brought him up. Sunny had encouraged him to follow his heart with Jane, and Lorenzo had always been friendly with all ethnicities that came onto his bus. Overall the movie was an awesome way to see what we have discussed in class on film.