When it comes to childhood movies, one thinks of "Old Things in the South of the City" from the mainland, "My Childhood" from Taiwan, "The Love of a Dog" from South Korea, and "Little Shoes" from Iran. These are pure childhood movies, with a strong humanistic atmosphere and personal emotions. "The Bronx Story" is also known as "Different Childhood". This film is also a movie about childhood. But it is not a childhood movie in the conventional sense. If it has to be classified, it is slightly more appropriate to put it in a gangster movie.
The soundtrack of the film is a big highlight, especially in the early part of the film. The cheerful music and funny shots add a lot of color to the film.
The gangster Sonny, who is also his father and friend, was an important role in C (Annu)’s childhood. From the long-distance worship to getting along, the fate of the two is also closely linked by a shooting case. Sonny Although he likes to bring C, he has always asked C to stay in school and not to go his own way; when C's favorite Yankees baseball team lost, favorite star Mickey Manto cried in the newspaper, Sonny said, "Mitchman If your father makes one hundred thousand dollars a year, how much does your dad make? If your dad needs money, go to Mickey Manto to ask for it. See what he says? Mickey Manto doesn't care, what do you care about"; When C is with those fooling friends When playing with guns, Sonny told C not to be with those scumbags. Later, when C got into the car and participated in violent actions against the black area, it was Sonny who corrected C and saved C's life. Sonny told C how to treat friends who borrowed money and didn't repay them, and how to test the girl he liked. When C saw Jane open the car door for him, he cheered for joy! Inadvertently for the sake of the other party, opened the door of the car, and inadvertently opened a way for himself. When C earned him from Sonny because of his father, C had a fierce quarrel with his father:
——Zinny is right, all the workers are idiots.
——It is easy to shoot and kill people. Every day you get up and work in the dark, let him try, and you will know who is the tough guy. Your dad is the tough guy.
——But everyone loves him, just like the passengers on the bus love you.
——No, it's not the same. People don't love him, they are afraid of him. This is the difference.
So there was a dialogue between C and Sonny:
——It's better to be loved and afraid?
——A good question, love and fear is the best, but it is too difficult. If I have to choose, I would rather others be afraid of me, afraid that it will last longer than love. Love bought with money is not worth mentioning, I said Everyone laughs at jokes. I’m not so humorous, right? Fear makes them loyal to me. The most important thing is not to be hated. My opponents are not too good or bad. If you give too much, they don’t need me. Yes, I only give them the degree to which they need me, but will not hate me. Sonny is wise, he knows how to successfully control his men, and he tells C the truth of "achievable".
C's father is a diligent and pragmatic person. He has always said to C: The greatest tragedy in life is the waste of talent. If you don't do the right thing, you will not succeed even if you have the talent of the world. A good father in life is happy, and two good "fathers" are happy and lucky. This is why C did not end up like his friends in the end.
C’s love affair in the film is young, tense strike-up, jerky first kiss, misunderstanding, but in the end he got the "three women" in his life.
In the 1960s and 1970s, racial discrimination was more serious. This film revolved around racial discrimination, and racial conflicts also opened up two clues. One is the conflict between C (Annu) and his friends and the black area; the other is It's C and Jane's love affair. The two clues develop independently and cross each other. Regarding the race view, the "Godfather" Sonny and the bus driver father can see that they have different personalities in their relationship with C. Sonny doesn't have a strong concept of race. He is a cunning and wise man with a real profit-oriented reality. When C asked him for advice, Sonny told him, don't care about the opinions of your partners, the comments of others, when the night comes only two people sleep in the bed, that's the most important thing. Dad is a person who follows the rules, pragmatic and pedantic. He does not have obvious colored glasses to look at this matter, but subconsciously he still rejects the combination of different races. His answer to his son is: people are obsessed with sex. Under circumstances, the little head will order the brain to do stupid things.
There are two main clues in the film that entangle the protagonist, which is also the main line of the film: one is the conflict between the father and Sonny; the other is the conflict between the white partner and the black area. The protagonist struggles in several camps, and sometimes there is no absolute right or wrong, and some mistakes are even made knowingly. The eight-year-old C did not identify the Sonny people in the shooting under the inquiry of the detective. Three times in the film, C asked about the reason for the shooting, "Is it just for a parking space?" Dad replied that they were just making a mistake. When I met, Sonny told him that you will understand when you grow up. Kami's answer is NO. Perhaps there is no absolute right or wrong for some things, and there may not necessarily be answers to some questions.
Some things are destined to be a kind of reincarnation. Sonny shot that person. Eight years later, Sonny was killed by the hand of his son who shot that person. Yes, Sonny’s time has passed, and C’s childhood has also passed. Just like at the end of the film, the Kami who was injured by a baseball bat came back to take over Sonny's site. This is the end of an era and the beginning of an era. Just like the last sentence of the film reads in white:
Someone will tell you another story about the Bronx.
