Ragazzi fuori

Boys on the Outside Italian Ragazzi fuori is a 1990 Italian drama film directed by Marco Risi in the neoneorealistic style and written by Aurelio Grimaldi. Released in 1990, it is the sequel to the 1989 film Forever Mery. It stars Francesco Benigno, Alessandro Di Sanzo and Salvatore Termini.

The film also traces the divergent paths taken by his former inmates at Malaspina, such as Mario Mery Libassi, the 17yearold transvestite, who resumes his previous sordid career as a male prostitute while awaiting trial for the assault on a client Claudio Catalano, while seeking to avoid the vindictive Carmelo Vella who blames Claudio for the loss of his left eye, obtains work as a mechanic in another neighbourhood, but shortly afterwards discovers his girlfriend, Vita is pregnant Antonino Patan is forced to push drugs in order to maintain his two small children after the financial police sequester his potatoes which Antonino was selling without a license and Giovanni Trapani, nicknamed King Kong and a member of Natales gang, is fatally shot by a plainclothes police officer outside the openair market of Vucciria after a long chase through the streets of Palermo for having robbed a car radio.Boys on the Outside accurately depicts the social problems faced by Natale and his companions, such as crime, poverty, unemployment, prostitution, teenage pregnancy, and police harassment, which were indelible features of life in the poorer districts of Palermo and other Sicilian cities during that time period. It is a drama with realistic scenes of sex, violence, police brutality, and rape. It ends with the discovery of the body of a young man, burnt beyond recognition, on a refuse tip. It is presumed to be that of Claudio, although the film never reveals its identity. The Italian language is spoken throughout the film mixed with the Palermo dialect of the Sicilian language. ........

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