"Poetry in Prison"
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What You Need To Know:
The award-winning SLAM is an extremely foul-mouthed, emotional low budget movie demonstrating the power of words to bring healing and strength in the face of temptation to be violent. Saul Williams plays 20-something African-American Raymond Joshua, a gifted rapper/poet imprisoned for selling marijuana. In prison, Ray decides not to go along with the violent social order. One day in the yard, Ray is nearly beaten up by thugs, but he recites poetry to defuse the anger of the group. He meets a prison writing teacher, is released on bail, raps at a poetry bar entitled “Slam” and struggles with thoughts of his future.
This award-winning movie provides an art house style to the urban drama. It covers old ground such as hip-hop music, rapping, guns, poverty, and foul language, but it is directed with a languid pace, photographed with both film and video, and stars a charismatic, intelligent lead who doesn’t possess an angry spirit but preaches against the use of violence as a solution. While potentially attractive to African-American audiences and art house movie patrons, the excessive foul language will repel many moral Americans who may otherwise enjoy this peculiar redemptive tale of non-violence, creativity and facing responsibility
Content:
(Pa, C, B, LLL, V, SS, NN, A, DD, M) Pagan worldview with strong Christological references & some moral elements; 140 obscenities, many uses of the “n” word & 5 profanities; brief street violence including a man shot with bloodshed, a prison brawl & threats of violence; briefly depicted act of fornication; brief full naturalistic male nudity & upper female nudity; alcohol use; smoking, drug possession & dealing; and, rebellious attitudes, & anger themes.
More Detail:
The award-winning SLAM is an extremely foul-mouthed, emotional low budget movie demonstrating the power of words to bring healing and strength in the face of temptation to be violent. Saul Williams plays 20-something African-American Raymond Joshua, a gifted rapper/poet imprisoned for selling marijuana. In prison, Ray decides not to go along with the violent social order. One day in the yard, Ray is nearly beaten up by thugs, but he recites poetry to defuse the anger of the group. He meets a prison writing teacher, is released on bail, raps at a poetry bar entitled “Slam” and struggles with thoughts of his future.
This award-winning movie provides an art house style to the urban drama. It covers old ground such as hip-hop music, rapping, guns, poverty, and foul language, but it is directed with a languid pace, photographed with both film and video, and stars a charismatic, intelligent lead who doesn’t possess an angry spirit but preaches against the use of violence as a solution. While potentially attractive to African-American audiences and art house movie patrons, the excessive foul language will repel many moral Americans who may otherwise enjoy this peculiar redemptive tale of non-violence, creativity and facing responsibility.
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