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...goalkeeper Joe Pilch, who stopped 19 Harvard shots on the afternoon. YALE, 9-5 at Ohiri Field Yale 1 1 3 -- 9 Harvard 1 3 0 1 -- 5 G: Yale--Mclntyre 2, Milone 3, Tonzola 2, Hunt, Hein; Harvard--Sprong 2, Buttles 2, Baly. A: Yale--Mclntyre 3, Tonzola, Sohn, Graw; Harvard--Sprong, DeVries 2, Watson S: Yale--Pilch 19; Harvard--Cynar...
...jail a poetry teacher named Lauren (Sonja Sohn, who can soar from a whisper to high-calorie emoting in the flick of a verb) encourages the inmates to examine the cycle of violence and put it into verse; they respond with pensive street scat like "I shot three m______f______s, and I don't know why." Well, it's a start. For Ray, it is the start of big things. He falls in love both with Lauren and with the furious folk art of slamming--a mix of hipster poetry contest and hip-hop riffing. Now Slam starts...
Starring Saul Williams, Sonja Sohn...
This responsibility is required of Ray, and it is his struggle that defines both his character and the film. Fortunately, he is helped in this struggle by Lauren Bell (played by Sonja Sohn, also a novice at film). A prison English teacher and poet herself, Laruen hears Ray perform while in jail, in a remarkable scene where he averts a gang fight by performing a poem he wrote which challenges the direction of their aggression towards each other. Once out on bail, Ray seeks her out, and they develop a relationship which, although slightly stretching the notion of love...
...especially in the numerous jail sequences which were, justly, shot in Washington, D.C.'s correctional facility (as debatable a term as that is). Levin's choice of DJ Spooky's music for the soundtrack only intensifies the haunting feeling of modern urban life, and his directing is similarly appropriate. Sohn shines in a number of scenes; she has a remarkable gift for seeming both powerful and fragile at the same time. And when she performs her own poem towards the end of the film, the effects are mesmerizing...