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This week in sociology, we watched the movie "A Bronx tale." This movie is based on a true story about Chazz Palmenteri (sonny) witnessed a murder growing up in an Italian neighborhood NY. The most appealing theme to me in this movie is the love vs. fear conflict. C grew up with two dads. One is his biological dad, the bus driver that everybody knows and love, the super ego. And there's Sonny, the mafia boss that everyone fears, the id. C grew up in multiple groups such as: his family as the only child, student in school, student in the streets, Sonny's group, and his hooligan childhood friends. Through out the movie, C has mixed feelings towards his master status. He had no main group that he was in at because he can't be focused on one group if that group is a conflict to another he's in. But towards the end, he leans more on the side of being a son and a lover because sonny and his childhood friends all died in a unfortunate events. He learns that hanging around those groups would lead him to the same fate as them. Like C, I, as a growing child, was also in conflicting groups that were totally different. When I was in elementary school me and my friends chose to be with the school bullies because we would be the ones bullied otherwise. But then we realize that going down the path where everyone respects you in fear, isn't something we wanted after realizing the consequences.