Minding the Gap Comments

  • Karson 2022-08-28 18:43:11

    At the beginning of the movie, we saw teenagers galloping freely on skateboards. Soon afterwards, director Liu Bing let them fly into a depressing real life. You will soon realize that skateboarding is just a way for these teenagers to escape from real life, but in the end you will find that people who want to escape from real life are not just victims of life, they may also be perpetrators. Mind the gap is the director's process of healing his childhood wounds, but he managed to capture the...

  • Golda 2022-08-28 17:58:13

    Very personal and extremely close to the heart, emotionally fragile and sensitive images. A few skateboarders in a small town in Illinois all walked together to find a new window with their skateboards because of the lack of family and the running of life. But later on, skateboarding was not the point. During several years of follow-ups, several people went from rebellious, perplexed, relieved, and mature. It can be said that it was the temper of life, and some were sentimental when they lost...

  • Shyanne 2022-08-28 14:23:36

    While watching it, I was full of emotions, following the rhythm of the film in emotional ups and downs, occasionally moistening my eyes. A young man made a very veiled accusation of family disability and violence. He was gentle but he could feel his radical thoughts. This is a private record of the director's healing, but it can soothe countless children. I hope you will come to watch this film when you grow up healthy and you won't complain too much about parents who have grown up like this....

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Minding the Gap quotes

  • Zack Mulligan: Your whole life society tells you, like 'oh, be a man, and you are strong and you are tough and margaritas are gay' you know, like. You know. You don't grow up thinking that's the way you are. When you're a kid, you just do, you just act and then somewhere along the line, everyone loses that.

  • 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.

Minding the Gap

Director: Bing Liu

Language: English Release date: August 17, 2018