Movie Night Experience, The Outsiders

Ellie Soriano

HCOM214

Movie Blog Entry

The Outsiders Movie Night Experience

My group watched the movie, The Outsiders, mostly together in a main quad residential lobby. We invited some friends to watch the movie with us so it wasn’t just the members of the group. It was difficult to understand everything that was happening in the movie because of technical difficulties such as volume level on the tv, this resulted in me having to re-watch clips of the movie to fully understand the impact of some parts of the movie. I thought the movie as a whole was good and I would give it a high rating if I was a movie critique.

The main characters that our group focused on, Dally, Ponyboy and Johnny were all interesting characters and I pitied them. Dally had potential to be a good person and not be shot down by the police if only he felt like he had someone that he could talk to and feel like they cared about it equally. He didn’t feel like he had that person though, even though all the greasers cared about him, his foolishness lead to his ultimate downfall.

Johnny was just as good as the rest of them if not better, he may have killed someone but it was out of defense and in hot blood and in all honesty I feel like the members of the rival gang deserved it and got what was coming to them. Johnny’s problem was that he drew the short end of the sticks of fate, he was a morally good kid who had a lot of friends that cared about him even though he didn’t have a stable family life.

Ponyboy was the only one out of the three main boys that we focused on who lived, so he was the most successful in that sense. He was an impressionable kid which was the only reason he was involved in anything crazy, his problem was going along with everything his friends and family did and never really standing up for himself and voicing his opinion.

Despite my group focusing on Dally, Johnny, and Ponyboy, I thought the most interesting characters were Ponyboy’s brothers. His brothers were Sodapop and Darrel. They were his older brothers and I thought that they were more interesting than the three boys we focused on. Sodapop always did his best to look out for Ponyboy, he was kind and compassionate towards everyone that he knew and I think that was great because there aren’t a lot of people like that nowadays nor were there a lot of people like him back then either, I also think it’s funny because he was a greaser too. Sodapop was also able to hold a job to help support his brothers. Darrel was the oldest brother of the three, he was leader of the greasers and he had a job, all the while taking full care of his younger brothers. I think that it takes a lot of skill and durability to do what Darrel had to do because it’s not easy to take care of two boys by yourself and you have to respect and admire him as a character for that. All in all my favorite character was Sodapop.

At the end of the movie we all discussed topics and subjects that were in the movie. My group asked our friends questions to get their opinion on the movie and everyone agreed with each other with their answers. In conclusion, the movie night was a good experience, educationally and socially.