Everyone has a breaking point
Prisoner #77 chose to be here.
[first lines]::Travis: [playing shuffleboard] You suck, don't you?::Gertrude: You suck.::Travis: Yeah, I suck so bad I just skunked you. Which means, you gotta eat your pills.::Gertrude: You're supposed to be nice to me.::Travis: I am nice to you. It's not my fault you got no game.::Gertrude: You suck, Travis.::Travis: I know.
Barris: We are strangers in a strange time.
Chase: I only have three rules: eat twat, smoke pot, and smile a lot.
Oscar: [to Helweg] Memo to Adolf, the uniform isn't real.
Nix: Expert in the penitentiary system, are you boy?::Travis: I just watch a lot of Discovery Channel.
Archaleta: Justice is what keeps us safe as a society. Ordered law.::Travis: Justice is what starts wars. And eye for and eye for an eye. It takes a turning of the cheek for this species to evolve.::Archaleta: Ah, so you're the one who knows what it's going to take for this society to evolve.::Travis: I'm just regurgitating what people have been saying for a long time.
Nix: Still think we're higher on the evolutionary chain than monkeys?::Travis: Yeah, 'cause we can still do something about it.
Plot
Amidst the chaos of Martial Law in this Third World country in the 1980s, six teenagers in the top high school for the sciences discover themselves as they go through the joys and pains of adolescence. They were the top two hundred students from all over the Philippines who passed the examination for the Philippine Science High School, which was created for the purpose of giving an education highly enriched in the Sciences to exceptionally gifted Filipino children. Selected from the best and brightest from all over the country, they endure college-level courses in biology, chemistry, mathematics, and physics from their sophomore year onwards. Those who can make it are hailed as the future science and technology leaders of the New Republic, those who don't are deemed unfortunate victims of natural selection. They all learn however that they are neither isolated from the real world, nor are they exempted from living real lives. They find the world outside, erupting into the People Power revolution in 1986 against the Marcos dictatorship, being replicated within the school as they struggle to graduate, contend with teachers, classmates, family, school officials, and a new classification to segregate students meeting the high standards of excellence from those who do not.
Keywords: 80s, coming-of-age, edsa-revolution, high-school, independent-film, martial-law, revolution, science
Martial Law in the 80s. But nothing can stop the dreams of six high school scholars of the Philippine Science High School.
Plot
Slam tells the story of Ray Joshua, an original, gifted young MC trapped in a war-zone housing project known as Dodge City. Unable to find a job, Ray copes with the despair and poverty of his neighborhood by using his wits and verbal talent.
Keywords: gang, independent-film, one-word-title, poetry, prison, racial-slur, urban
Words make sense of a world that won't.
All in Line for a Slice of Devil Pie.
Ray Joshua: The wind is the moon's imagination wandering. It seeps through cracks, ripples the grass, explores the unknown. My love is my soul's imagination. How do I love you? Imagine.
Jail Class Poet: I shot motherfuckers then I didn't know why. I guess I just wanted to see somethin' die.
Lauren Bell: His invisible strokes are felt as he stands on the stage in front of me... a mike and a million miles away from me.
Lauren Bell: Never give anyone the power to take away your freedom. That's yours. It don't belong to nobody but you. Remember that.
Lauren Bell: You can give birth to an excuse so easily, you will believe it's always been there.
Ray Joshua: You servin' time outside of the penitentiary, doin' exactly what they want you to do: POW! POW! all day. That's the motherfuckin' master plan, niggy.
Ray Joshua: I am before, I am before before. Before death is eternity, after death is eternity, there is no death - there is only eternity.
Ray Joshua: My niggaz are dyin' before their time. My niggaz are servin' unjust time. My niggaz are dying because of... time.
Ray Joshua: And they start shooting at the children / one by one / two by two / three by three / four by four / five by five / six by six / But my spirit is growing seven by seven.
Ray Joshua: Now is the essence of my domain, because I am what I was and will be, I am and always will be that nigger / I am that nigger / I am that nigger / I am a negro / Negro from necro meaning death / I overcame it / So they named me after it.
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