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The Writing on the Wall

The Writing on the Wall (1986)

December. 11,1986
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"In this half-hour documentary, Producer Sandra King provides an intimate portrait of a public phenomenon: Graffiti. Over an 18 month period, King and her crew followed the teenage members of a graffiti 'crew,' Vandals on the Street, as they painted and rapped and moved through the streets of downtown Newark. What emerges is a unique glimpse behind the 'tags' at the kind of inner city kids who write on walls, but who also make art; who create out of wedlock children, but who also form binding relationships; who drop out of school and never read a book, but who create their own brand of poetry through the medium of 'rap.'

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Executscan
1986/12/11

Expected more

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PiraBit
1986/12/12

if their story seems completely bonkers, almost like a feverish work of fiction, you ain't heard nothing yet.

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Rio Hayward
1986/12/13

All of these films share one commonality, that being a kind of emotional center that humanizes a cast of monsters.

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Billie Morin
1986/12/14

This movie feels like it was made purely to piss off people who want good shows

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