A Mafia Princess Fights the Inevitable. In ‘Philosophy for Gangsters,’ Ideas Are Deadly
Daniel M. GoldFebruary 12, 2014: In Philosophy for Gangsters, a fitfully amusing dark comedy, Callie Rizzoli, a college-educated Mafia princess being groomed to lead the family business, is particularly aggrieved by the way her parents and brothers have departed — in a firefight with the police, shrugging that they were always meant to die that way. What killed her people, Callie (Courtney Romano) insists, was their determinism: the belief that nothing occurs at random, that every decision and action is the inevitable outcome of previous events. Never mind the mob; those damn philosophers are the true menace to society.
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