A Bronx Tale

Last week in sociology we watched a movie called "A Bronx Tale." It tells the story of a kid nicknamed C who grows up in the Bronx in the 1960's, in an apartment building next to a bar. Although the movie is great, we watched it in order to study the different social construction of reality that existed in urban life in the 60's. The film shows the difference in how people were viewed by each other back then through the way that music is used. As different neighborhoods and people are introduced, specifically outlining the difference between the African American neighborhood and the Italian neighborhood, the music changes in the movie to exemplify both their feelings towards each other and also the physical separation that occurs between them. Sonny keeps saying throughout the movie that parts of an honest life aren't for him, such as trusting in anyone around him. He finally trusts C, and in being happy to see him he gets shot in the head. While this is extremely unrealistic in my life to happen to one of my friends, I think that what Sonny said can apply to my life and my friends. There are a lot of people who I know through school that I wouldn't trust as much as my closest friends, and by trusting some people it is very easy to be hurt in some way. It really shows the difference in the sociological imagination between myself and C in the movie, because if Sonny had said what he said to me, it would mean that I could have my reputation hurt or I could lose a friend or something far less significant that my life. To C, that was exactly what it would have meant.