The Education of Sonny Carson
by Michael Campus
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Actor: Don Gordon, Joyce Walker, Paul Benjamin, Rony Clanton, Thomas HicksDirector: Michael Campus
Brand: Video Communications Inc.
Cinematographer: Edward R. Brown
Editor: Edward Warschilka
Editor: Moe Howard
Producer: David Golden
Producer: Irwin Yablans
Writer: Fred Hudson
Writer: Sonny Carson
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language)
Format: Color, DVD, NTSC, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.77:1
Running Time: 104 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2002-08-27
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Studio: Vci Video
Movie Reviews of The Education of Sonny Carson
Movie Review: Gangs of NY - - Circa 1970 and REAL...
Summary: 5 Stars
This movie was probably the first of its type. Many "life as a gang member" films came to follow it (especially in the 1980s and 1990s), but none really did so like this one... Most the ones that followed had a tendency to be too "Hollywood Melodramatic"-ish (at times cartoonish, and at other times somewhat preachy.) Without spoiling the ending, though Sonny Carson makes an important decision at the end of the film, the ending is anything but happy... in fact it is often critisized for its apparent "inconclusion", but I disagree... It is what makes the film so great. Almost like a documentary ("120 Blocks from Tiffany's") the film simply tells the story and leaves the big question to be asked and answered by the viewer. Sonny has "graduated" from his training by society and the system... the "happy" days of his violent education are over... but what next ? What is in his future ? Isn't everyone promised the American dream??? Sonny walks the straight path, but the odds still seem stacked against him. It would seem to me that if the film has been understood the viewer should leave it not demanding to know what happened to SONNY himself, but rather wondering about the plight of all the other SONNYs in the world... what society did to create the situation and what society or the communities are failing to do to resolve it ? Then we must debate whether Sonny's future is really in his own hands and if he does have a fair chance to make a life for himself. This, I assume was might have been the director's intention.
Though fans of 70s urban action type films will love the music and on-scene locations (and notice a few actors... for example the cop from the MAC and the gang leader from THE WARRIORS) beware, this is not just another 70's urban action thriller... it is an urban coming of Age Story, starting from Sonny's graduation from Jr. HS to his "education" (via the streets, the system) and ultimately jail, and his sad graduation into a lonely and questionable adulthood. Memorable and unique !
Summary of The Education of Sonny Carson
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