![]() The '50s: The Bronx is still in the thick of this era in 1960, and elements of it linger all the way to 1968.As all these threads come together and the film heads for a climax, Calogero must start making some tough choices about his life, and try to deal with events that will leave most of the characters changed, and more than a few dead. This is something C wants no part of, since 1) both his father and Sonny are fairly tolerant people and have passed that along to him and 2) C is in the middle of falling for a black classmate, Jane Williams. What's more, C's friends are in the middle of starting a mini race war with the black teenagers from the next neighborhood over. In the meantime C's relationship with his father is growing ever more strained, especially as C continues to admire Sonny and soak up input from his friends that have formed their own "social club" and act like a minor league mafia. Lorenzo is still driving a bus for the city, Sonny is now a boss, and C is 17 and has spent nearly half his life reaping the benefits of being, for all intents and purposes, like an adopted son to Sonny. Following this a wary truce begins, with both Lorenzo and Sonny influencing and guiding C into adulthood.įast forward 8 years. ![]() It isn't long before Sonny and Lorenzo have a tense confrontation about C's time hanging out with Sonny, as Lorenzo fears that it will influence C into embracing the mob lifestyle. A grateful Sonny asks to meet Calogero, and quickly takes a liking to the kid, and soon begins to take him under his wing and treat Calogero like a son, including giving him the nickname C. right in front of young Calogero.įollowing the street ethics of his neighborhood, Calogero lies to the police and refuses to identify Sonny as the shooter. until the day when two men pulling into a parking space at the same time get into a fight, one of them pulls out a bat and attacks the other with it, and Sonny shoots the bat wielding assailant. Still, Sonny never notices Calogero or the other neighborhood boys that imitate the gangster. Naturally, both of Calogero's parents disapprove of this (especially his painfully honest, straight living father), but nothing they do can stop Calogero's fascination with Sonny, the other neighborhood mobsters, or their hangout bar, which is just a couple of places down the street from his own house.
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