A guide to recognising your saints

i always thought i knew my taste in movies pretty well. they usually extended to period-films (historical), horror, british comedy and teenage R-rated movies. (cheap thrills!) but off late iv realised that a completely new genre of movies has begun to catch my interest. and that is 'poor-urban-culture'. (u've probably not heard of that genre before, but thats because iv just made it up! and haven't found a decent enough title for it yet!) these movies usually center around gang wars and random violence.
For the past couple of months this particular DVD has been catching my eye, but for one reason or another, id never rented it. finally on a particularly boring sunday morning i decided to check it out. the title itself (a guide to recognising your saints) seemed interesting in itself. a movie that would help you recognise what ever your definition of the saints in your life might be. and thats precisely what this movie is about. the entire movie is shot in flash back about the way tito (robert downey jr.) goes back to the bronx, where he grew up, and starts realising that the people whom he ran away from 16 years ago, were in fact the people who framed him for what he was today (a famous novelist). they were people who had stuck with him emotionally and stayed by all those people whom he cared for, during his years of his absence.
for some reason this resonated with me. i hate stories that have morals, or are preachy in some way, but this movie was neither of them. it simply showed one guys (and its a true story) gratitude to the people he had grown up with. because even in the midst of drugs, mindless violence and mechanical sex, in such a 'hostile environment', environments in which every-one-for-themselves is the order of the day, people still look out for one another and genuinely care. it speaks volumes about human nature.