The Fear of 13 Page #2

Synopsis: A convicted murderer who has spent 23 years on Death Row tells his story.
Director(s): David Sington
  1 win & 4 nominations.
 
IMDB:
7.7
Rotten Tomatoes:
92%
Year:
2015
96 min
301 Views


the one place they could be normal.

They got themselves

put into the same cell and together,

in the setting of a prison,

where homosexuality is an accepted

form of expression, or just life,

no-one bothered them.

And that's when the drugs were

discovered and the guard

on duty at nine o'clock that night

started tormenting Wesley.

"Hey, f*ggot, you're going.

"Your boy's going to Western.

I just looked on the transfer sheet.

"You're going to Dallas.

"Opposite ends of the State

of Pennsylvania. Bye, n*gger!"

And I guess Wesley went

crazy in the cell.

Cos about 40 minutes later,

just before ten o'clock, there was

like 20 minutes left before shift

change at 10.00pm.

This voice took over.

# Ah, oooh

# Yeah

# I have a dream, the dream

Of every common man... #

Every man on that block

just stood still.

# I have sworn by my blood

as your man, my love... #

We knew the penalty.

# That one day, I promise one day

all of your heartaches would stop... #

Then you heard the keys.

HE MIMICS RATTLE OF KEYS

The footsteps behind it.

"What the f*** are you doing,

singing in my block?

"I will beat your head in. If you don't stop that

singing right now, I will beat your head in. "

# Oh, thanks to you baby

SINGER LAUGHS:

# For just loving a common man... #

More keys. # I want to thank

you this evening, honey... #

HE MIMICS KEYS SHAKING

Here they come.

Everybody knows what's coming.

# I thought that I'd failed you... #

The lieutenant came running down

and he was this militant a**hole

with the brush cut

and the uniform that was

pressed to precision

and he ran down and he ran down

and he said, "Hold it. " Like that.

And even Wesley stopped cos

we know, when Lieutenant Norris

raised his hand, that was it.

He said, "I leave in 20 minutes.

"If there is a noise on this block, from anyone, when

I leave this unit, we will beat every man's head in.

"Do you understand me?" Silence.

"Finish that song, inmate.

Let's go. "

The guards looked at him

like he had lost his frigging mind.

They were stunned.

"Let's go. You.

You've got 20 minutes. "

And walked off the block.

HE MIMICS KEYS SHAKING

He even had an argument on the way

out of the door.

When the gates shut...

GATE SLAMS:

.. that big wide B block gate -

when they left the block alone,

we were like...

"Oh, my God! We are totally

and utterly unsupervised. "

And he came back right in mid-lyric

like he had never stopped singing.

# You said, "I love you, baby

# I love you for just

being a common man... #

SINGER JOINS ON BASS NOTE

And like you could hear them,

here they come,

the other members that had a little

bit of guts, yeah?

They were blowing, you know?

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