I have read this book in finnish in seventh grade, but I didn´t realize it until I had read like 50 pages. The fact that I had read this book didn´t bother me cause it is really a pleasure to read it all over again. The book tells a story about few friends who lives together, because their parents are dead. These boys are called Ponyboy, Sodapop and Darry. The book tells about teenagers who are in different gangs and have a little bit of conflict with each others. The gangs are called Socs and Greasers, boys mentioned before belong to the Greasers. There are also other boys in the greasers such as Johnny, Steve , Dallas and Two-Bit.
There were many things I really enjoyed while reading this book, but after a little bit of reading I started to notice how great these characters were. There were so many similar characters, like for example whose basic life story is being a rebel and so on, but in a way every character stood out by being so unique. That was the most admirable thing I noticed while reading this book, but one other thing stood out as well. This book is frightening brutal and realistic, it wont try to hide anything instead it tells a story as cruel and realistic as it can be told.
When I made a little background check about the writer I was actually suprised, because the writer was at the age of 19 when she wrote this book. Other thing that stood out as well was that this book really divides oppinions because of its gang violence and underage smoking and drinking.
If you are looking for a novel The Outsiders is a great one. As it says on the cover ”A revealing novel about teenagers by a teenager” and every word in this book is there for a reason and tells one of the most beatiful stories ever told.
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The Outsiders
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Inside man
Inside man is a realistic action movie, but however it manages to stun by it’s brilliant way to handle hard situations in the film.
This is a movie from a criminals point of view. It will manage to get the audience to take the criminals side, without making the police officers look bad. That is one of the things I admire in this movie. Movie tells a story about a man who plans a perfect bank robbery and on the side he reveals many bigger things about local politicians and big shots. For the whole time the movie is interesting and it wont leave cold anyone who is a friend of a good heist movie.
The fascinating thing I really love in this movie are the characters. Robbers call themselfs with a different variation of a name ”steve” like a steve-o or stevie. The good guys have many interesting characters, but one of them clearly makes it as a main character, he is a detective Keith Frazier. Detective is a slightly distracted, because at the time of the assingment he is facing corruption charges, so he doesn’t really have a change to fail.
The one thing that actually makes this movie above the average compared to other heist movies, is the plot. Viewer will be suprised as the movie goes on. I would definitely watch this movie all over again. Inside man won’t brag with insane violence instead it is a more of a thriller kind of mind game, which is played by traditional cops vs robbers positioning. In my opinion the best scene in this movie is placed inside a surrounded bank (spoiler alert). When the police launches assault the criminal mastermind hides inside the bank and leaves weeks later, when the situation has calmed down. I personally loved that scene, just the way how to deal with the situations without anykind of overkills with violence, it impresses me.
This is my rewiew about a movie ”Inside man” if i would give a traditional five star rewiew, I would say 4/5.
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