>>126828147>or maybe they treat it more like a tarantino movie, divorced from realityArt (songs, movies, books, etc.) about bad people can be experienced in a number of different ways. From empathizing and identifying with the bad guys, to doing the same with the good guys, to seeing it from the outside and being amused at the actions of the characters without identifying with any of them, etc.
For the common person a mafia movie is so far from real life that you can't really identify as any of the characters or their actions (other than maybe as a fantasy, kinda like a kid may fantasize about being a superhero or something), but for someone in that environment, that same movie will be experienced in a much closer-to-real-life way, even if just on a subconscious level.
I grew up in a bad neighborhood (for European standards at least) with kids whose parents were drug dealers, and the local culture was very much crime-oriented and the kids were already "crime-minded" in their tweens (some even earlier). The way they talked about, say, a movie about organized crime, was very different from the way my other friends who weren't in that world would talk about it, but in some cases even the "good" kids would relate to elements of those movies that they resonated with, such as being strong/respected, being fearless in dangerous situations, having money, etc. but they saw it in a more "cargo-cultish" way instead of actually understanding it (the kids whose parents were openly dealing weren't exactly experienced criminals, but definitely had an understanding of it that wasn't as surface-level).
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