Outlaws
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Outlaws
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A Lot or a Little?
The parents' guide to what's in this movie.
What Parents Need to Know
Parents need to know that Outlaws is a Spanish drama (with English subtitles) about an innocent youth from a middle-class family who's bullied in high school and then falls in with gang members. The action revolves around drug dealing and robberies. Characters smoke cigarettes and use and sell marijuana and pills. Language includes "f--k," "s--t," ass," "d--k," "bastard," "bitch," "hell," "damn," "p--sy," "t-ts," and "balls." A teen and a woman are seen having sex. Breasts are shown. A girl takes a high school boy in a pubic bathroom and gives him a hand job. There are shootings and blood as well, and the police waterboard a gang member. A high school boy is held under water in a pool. He's punched and harassed relentlessly by classmates.
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What's the Story?
OUTLAWS is the story of an innocent bullied teen, Nacho (Marcos Ruiz), who takes out his frustrations on his nice family and finds his self esteem among a crew of petty thieves who deal drugs and knock over gas stations. Zarco (Chechu Salgado) is the leader, charismatic enough to make Nacho believe he's worthy and grownup, something he hasn't felt so far. But it is for the love of Zarco's flirtatious girlfriend Tere (Begona Vargas) that Nacho crosses from law-abiding naïf to swaggering renegade bank robber. He's slowly enticed to join the gang in robbing pharmacies for pills and eventually banks. All the while his love for the unattainable Tere goads him to greater crimes. A terrifying police chase and bloody wound send him home for solace. There he learns that his father is a stand-up guy.
Is It Any Good?
Outlaws gets off to a slow start and by the end feels like several movies in one. Its emphasis is on class and social position and how the law treats criminals from the upper classes differently from those who come from poverty. The somber tone of what starts as a movie about life in high school alters unexpectedly as the end offers a commentary on the unfairness of a system that dooms some to criminal lives and saves others before they stray far too far. This adds up to the story of a narrow escape from a ruined life.
Talk to Your Kids About ...
Families can talk about why Nacho would allow himself to become a gang member. How does the movie set up the allure of the criminal life?
Do you think Nacho's actions are motivated by his attraction to Tere? Why or why not?
What does the movie want the audience to think about Zarco, the gang leader, at the beginning of the movie, at the middle, and at the end? What makes our perspectives on him change?
Movie Details
- On DVD or streaming: November 22, 2021
- Cast: Marcos Ruiz, Begona Vargas, Chechu Salgado, Carlos Oviedo
- Director: Daniel Monzon
- Studio: Netflix
- Genre: Drama
- Run time: 137 minutes
- MPAA rating: NR
- Last updated: February 28, 2022
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