A Brox Tale.

          This week in class Sal had us watch an amazing movie called " A Brox Tale." This movie is is about a kid named Calogero who lives in a town that is very heavily influenced by Italian culture. Calogeros father tries extremely hard to make an honest living and to instil this work ethic into his son. The attempts of his father are contridicted by what he see's in his community. When Calogero is very young he witnesses a murder and when the police question him about it he lie to keep his name clean in the neighborhood. Sonny , the neighborhood mob boss, feels like Calogero did him a favor and takes a liking to him. over the years Sonny and Calogero become very close and Lerenzo is not happy about that at all. Calogero kind of stuggle within himself to figure out who he is. He wants to be a good son to Lorenzo, a good friend to Sonny and a good friend to his peers. With all these influences C has to follow the rules. These rules aren't punishable by government but they are in the neighborhood. For example when Calogero tells the cops that Sonny didnt kill the man, he is following the rules. One of these imaginary rules is that you could be a "Rat" meaning you had to keep quite and you couldnt snitch. Another rule was if you were a white person you couldnt date a black person. This rule Calogero breaks in order to try to find "one of the great ones". I believe that todays society also has unwritten rules like how in the "gang leader for a day". I think this movie was kind of like Gang Leader because Sonny was a leader of a gang but he also helped people out in the community. Even though he did bad things it didnt make him a bad man, just like the Gand Leader in the Gang Leader for a day reading.