Movie Analysis: A Bronx Tale

The movie "A Bronx Tale" is obviously set in the Bronx and sets a young man Calogero Anello, "C" against the trials and tribulations of growing up incorruptible, in a neighborhood of mob crime and wayward minors. The movie holds characters that fit delinquency terms such as chronic offenders, and characters that fit theories such as the choice theory. Calogero at the end of the movie seems to have an identity crisis as mentioned by Erikson in his theory. Also characters show signs of being latent delinquents, and some characters seem to attribute their actions to the social learning theory. The movie as a whole is a great sign to see the varying degrees of delinquency especially in urban communities. I think the movie also gives people
The word chronic offender applies to most characters in the movie. One of the stars of the movie "Sonny" Chazz Palminteri admits in the movie he had been to jail before. During the movie he is involved in obvious criminal offenses. Two obvious offenses are aggravated assault when his mob friends and him get in a fight with the motorcycles gang Satan's Messengers. Also early in the movie he kills a man in the street. It shows that he is a chronic offender because despite being to jail and obviously being exposed to specific deterrence he still has the urge to commit crimes. Even thought the crimes are never prosecuted and he is never caught. Calogero's friends "Slick and Mario" are both in my eyes chronic offenders. In their youth they commit "small crimes" such as stealing from the food cart man. "Crazy" Mario as he is called in the movie I feel is more of the leader and I think Slick just goes along with what Mario says. It is shown later in the movie that they assault a group of African American's riding bikes through their neighborhood. Then at the end of the movie they try to burn a building down and fire shots inside
Nicky Zero is an obvious delinquent whose family life probably led him to where he was at. Nicky Zero as described in the movie was the neighborhood thief. Zero wasn't his actual name though. The movie said his mother called him zero because they said he would never amount to anything. The movie never mentioned a father but it was my impression he didn't have one. With a family life like that where a mother calls you zero and a father not around he is a prime example of a latent delinquent. He probably thrived of people knowing him as Nicky Zero and didn't want to "disappoint" anyone. In the movie he is selling Calogero and his friends a gun, he thinks the whole situation is quite humorous and they even talk about shooting somebody just to do it. Nicky Zero obviously has inexcusable actions but they can be accredited to something more then his bad choices. A theory dealing with social learning explains that delinquent behavior is modeled through contact with some other delinquent. This is evident in every character in the movie. Nicky Zero no doubt learned how to steal or heard stories on how to get certain contraband from the mob presence in his neighborhood. Calogero and his friends in the beginning of the movie are directly mimicking what the mobsters down the street are doing. As children they act like the mobsters and try to guess which one the child is acting