Minding the Gap Comments

  • Godfrey 2023-07-01 13:10:30

    I like that delicate black guy hope you have a sweet life in...

  • Ocie 2023-06-30 10:55:48

    I thought it was a skateboarding documentary, but I didn't expect it to be a record of life. The cowardice and non-resistance of Chinese women made those white garbage even more...

  • Enos 2023-06-23 11:49:21

    -I get mad at skateboarding, like, a lot. But at the end of the day I love it so much, I can't stay mad at it. -But it hurts you. -Yeah, so did my dad. But I love him to death. It's even more so when you're alive, you sometimes feel so broken and mad, it hurts you, but in the end you love it until the day you...

  • Salma 2023-06-20 21:02:06

    BJIFF2019 I love this movie so...

  • Elmore 2023-06-14 13:49:14

    It’s great. All the touching, sentimental, sad, and exciting things are told to the audience very effectively. Skateboarding is just an introduction, not just selling feelings or avoiding hardships. The smiles of the two close friends in the director’s shots are too awkward. People are impressed, and the conversation with my mother is equally unforgettable. The pain of the past and the current bitterness have turned into a vision for the future and a passion for life. The silhouettes of street...

  • Jaime 2023-06-14 12:57:57

    The Chinese director returned to his hometown of the Rust Belt in Illinois, brought with him the skateboard material of the happy childhood days, found the little friends who grew up together, and tried to reconcile with the director's own past by asking them about their childhood memories and traumas. Behind the flying gopro images, we know that this young trio of whites, blacks and Asians all come from divorced families with a history of domestic violence, and some specious violent virus is...

  • Malachi 2023-06-08 23:06:04

    Flying over mountains and rivers, only to realize that freedom is all just...

  • Otto 2023-06-05 14:25:10

    Because of the pun in the title, the beginning of the topic, and the rather typical relationship between the protagonists (a black, a white, and an Asian director), I thought it was just a neat student work at first. The most sincere thing in this kind of private image is moved, and the direct expression is the different meanings of the three characters' laughter when they grow up. They say "skateboarding isn't just for being cool and making friends, it's a way to escape," and for me football...

  • Adam 2023-06-02 19:07:20

    A healing work of the director's self-dissection, and the editing is very cool. 【Will be...

  • Kody 2023-06-01 04:40:37

    First of all, I encourage this virgin from the Chinese director. Although skateboarding is not the focus, spiritual growth is the main line. It also reminds me of the passionate 20-year-old Banzai boy, the skateboard underworld motherfucka and Wangfujing Church and the brothers on skateboarding day. How are you all doing now? In addition to these feelings that touched me, the overall nature of the film is almost...

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Minding the Gap quotes

  • Keire Johnson: I feel like life might be moving too fast.

    Zack Mulligan: We have to fully grow up and it's gonna fucking suck.

  • Keire Johnson: It would kind of be like a drug in a way. Like, I can seriously be on the verge of having a fucking mental breakdown, but as long as I'm able to go skate then I'm completely fine.