Diary of a Serious Offender (2019)

Carlin es trasladado de un reformatorio a otro tras haber dado una paliza a un funcionario. En éste se ejecuta un régimen brutal que hace aumentar la agresividad de los internos en lugar de mejorar su conducta. Los férreos funcionarios, apoyados por el director, animan a los veteranos más fuertes a oprimir a los débiles y que obedezcan todas las normas impuestas. Pocos se atreven a desafiar estas reglas.

North Philadelphia, PA – Kev, El and Andy are three men united by one struggle: they are trying to defy gravity. As part of the 700,000 prisoners released into society every year, they find themselves faced with a chilling outlook: 67% of ex-offenders re-offend within three years. What explains this invisible force that keeps former inmates in a seemingly unending cycle of incarceration? Filmed on the street over the course of two years, Pull of Gravity is an intimate portrait of these three men that confronts head-on the gritty details of lives cut short by poverty and drugs, where dealing is seen as the only route to economic prosperity, where using offers an escape from powerlessness, and where prison is too often the next stop. The film’s unfiltered lense captures its subjects as they lay bare their stories, fears, and tentative dreams.

Guided by their maverick sociology professor, three students set up separate experiments around the city to prove his "Tetris" theory of chaos: that human nature inevitably deteriorates from order to anarchy.