Uproar | movie | 2023 | Official Trailer
UPROAR is a story about connection and finding your place in the world. It is the story of 17-year-old Josh Waaka (playe | dG1fOU9PVmRrd3B0V1U
Transcript
00:00 (upbeat music)
00:02 - Chugga, chugga, chugga, chugga.
00:05 - Big black engine coming through.
00:08 - Josh, I've started an amateur drama club at lunchtime.
00:11 Well, there's four of us, so it's not big, but still.
00:14 - Why are you asking me?
00:18 - I just thought it might be something you'd enjoy.
00:19 - Five things, five things, five things, five things.
00:23 Food.
00:24 - Bread.
00:27 - Yes.
00:29 - I think you should coach the team.
00:31 - A homo.
00:33 - Was that a question or a statement?
00:35 - What?
00:36 - You know, was it a question like, am I a homo?
00:38 Or was it a statement like, you're a homo?
00:40 - Performing arts sounds like a secure career move.
00:44 - Madigan says I'm a good actor.
00:46 - Oh, does he?
00:47 - And you are not crap, Josh.
00:50 - Whoa.
00:51 - Any behavior that threatens our ideal
00:54 will not be tolerated.
00:55 - Pramboi, come join us.
00:58 - I'm not really much more of a sitter.
01:01 - Can't be like that.
01:04 Out here is the real world.
01:05 It's different, so you've gotta be different.
01:08 - I didn't know all that about your people.
01:12 - Darling, they're your people too.
01:14 - Know how to work that thing?
01:16 - Yeah, I think so.
01:17 (crowd chanting)
01:25 - Joshua chose to disobey my instructions.
01:28 - You nearly sabotage everything.
01:30 - We were protesting.
01:31 - I told you, you get expelled from school.
01:32 - I hate that school.
01:33 I'm a Maori surrounded by white kids.
01:38 You don't know what it feels like to not fit in.
01:41 - It's hard when you can't do the thing that makes you you.
01:47 - You got one job, love.
01:48 You do whatever I need you to do
01:49 to keep this family together.
01:51 - We have the whole world watching us right now
01:55 and we can't waste this moment.
01:56 - Josh is a really tricky kid to get to know.
01:58 It's when he's performing that we get the best insight
02:01 as to who he really is.
02:02 (upbeat music)
02:05 - We all have our stories.
02:13 - They're not there to pull us down.
02:16 - They're there to push us forward.
02:17 - You know this way's faster, right?
02:22 - I think I've ruptured my gluteus maximus.
02:25 - It is impossible to rupture your ass.
02:27 (upbeat music)
02:30 (upbeat music)