The Outsiders (1983)

The outsider’s is immensely one of my favorite film and book of all time. The film directed by Francis Ford Coppola is a well done adaptation of S.E Hilton’s classic novel. I always tell myself that books should not be adapted and made into movies, that we readers are the ones to decide and make up the movie with the use of our imagination in terms of characters, locations, aesthetic etc. Ponyboy Curtis is a 14-year-old orphan who lives with his brothers, Darry and Sodapop.They deem themselves in a gang as “the Greasers”,who are portrayed as low-class and violent,alongside a common upper-east side gang the “Socs”, who attack Ponyboy one night, the events of the film are carried and effected by that incident, tension escalates after the Socs catch Ponyboy and his friend, Johnny, escorting two Soc girls home,but the problem is about to get bigger. When Ponyboy gets home, Darry his “father figure” in his life degrades Ponyboy by yelling and slapping him. Ponyboy gets himself in more trouble alongside his bestfriend Johny,they both decide to runway and rely on each other to find out who they are and get ready on what is to come. This is not your average 80’s classic film but how they handled the narrative is outstanding and unpredictable which made me love it even more, in terms of character improvement and how they deal with such a sensitive subject…violence.