The newly opened screen of the Black Sugar Box Art Center, a small theater viewing mode, is comparable to IMAX. Conversational documentary about domestic violence, single-parent family growth patterns, race, and class. Skateboarding is not for pretending to be cool, and maybe not for escape, it is freedom and self-searching.
Overall the shots are great!
When Keel looked for the tombstone, he began to smile and said to Liu Bing that it would be too painful if he couldn't find it today. The last time he came to the burial, he found it in the end. He was extremely happy, and started crying bitterly with a smile.
Zack's son Elliott still had his skateboard. At the end, Zack had just left, and the camera cut from the door to the kitchen. Elliott handed Nina the pumpkin cake he made, which was very warm.
Liu Bing himself finally reconciled with his mother at the dinner table.
The crossover of multiple groups of characters makes the whole film very rich in content, and each dialogue is very delicate.
Of course, the coolest scene is the skateboarding that these young skateboarders have been skating from their childhood to adulthood. It's wonderful. I also slid, fell a few times, and then stopped slipping, lacking courage. However, the shooting process was not all a smooth and successful skill performance. Zack and Gere fell to the ground, and there were many scenes of injuries and bleeding. They reacted in various ways after falling, cursing, grinning, laughing, slamming off the skateboard... all kinds of emotional reactions are their real life portrayal, and skateboarding is their only friend since childhood.
The few who appeared in the documentary are all at the bottom. Keele was at the beginning. His resentment and hatred for his violent father made him suffer from the heart, especially after his father died. Untie. He wanted to win his father's approval through his excellent performance on skateboarding, but it was too late now. Zack is a roofer and often uses alcohol to dissipate his sorrows and smoke marijuana. After Zack got married, his marriage broke up a few years later. Because he was born in an incomplete family, he became at a loss when he became the protagonist of marriage and family. Although he tried to love Elliott as much as possible, the relationship between Nina and him became more and more broken, and eventually the marriage ended in quarrel and violence.
On the whole, the documentary uses the narration between different subjects to convey domestic violence, gender relations, racial issues, etc. to the audience in a specific and subtle way. At least it makes me feel natural and sincere. It is a documentary that I want to watch a second time. .
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