I really thought it was a (hot-blooded) sports documentary. But the beginning of the movie is clear: three skateboarders went to climb the stairs and said with a smile that they had never seen the No Entry sign, but it didn't take long to retreat from the hollow staircase-can't you be afraid of heights when you play extreme sports?
Zack's voice said as a narrator: You have been taught what you should and shouldn't do since you were a child. Be a man and be tough and strong. Margaritas are for gays. When you were a child, you unconsciously accepted and followed...until one day, you lost yourself. Having said that, Zack, who was playing on a skateboard in another scene, fell down. Of course, this "sports documentary" I think has the cool and heroic appearance of skateboarders, but also somersaults that they have fallen; it started in this way.
All the protagonists’ families seem to be depressive, so they attribute the origin of themselves and skateboarding to "escape", "controllable" and "antidote". It’s the skate shop owner who has dealt with these angry teenagers all the year round that knows the situation best: “It doesn’t just mean getting cooler or making friends for you. It’s a matter of life and death.”
Among them, Keira’s family is probably the most normal (not a joke): parents are separated, an unreliable brother will steal his money, he lives with his father, and the strict father’s education method is violence, their last conversation It's the dramatic "I hate you". As a child, Keira was always angry. In the original video, Keira, who was bullied, was angrily beaten and destroyed the older child's skateboard. But now he always has a simple smile, quietly examining everything around him. Perhaps it was because he finally found something precious from his father's inheritance. At the age of 18, he is full of confusion, but has become more peaceful and optimistic.
When we first met, it was Zack who saved Keira who was bullied. In the eyes of this little brother, Zack seemed to be omnipotent, there was no problem he couldn't solve. He secretly hoped that he could become Zack. Even if they saw that Zack was no longer outstanding when he grew up, they couldn't believe that worse things happened to him. "You should be my best friend, but I don't seem to know the real you."
Going back to the beginning of the film, Zack's life seems to be thriving. For the sake of his children, he started to quit alcohol, worked hard, cared about food and vegetables, and changed his son's diapers to make all his friends dumbfounded. He is determined to help his son become a talent, make him happy and become a good person. He is willing to do anything for his son.
With my greatest kindness, perhaps their father thought the same way, right? So they turned their expectations into power, "Now it should be child abuse."
The word "father" was like a huge dark cloud hanging over Rockford. The father in everyone's memories is like a terrible shadow. No one has ever succeeded in "becoming a father".
The reason why Zack said the opening words may be precisely because he also experienced a childhood of free growth. Suddenly one day, my father became conservative and strict, hoping that his son would become a dragon. But the memory of freedom in childhood is so deep, how can it be suddenly obliterated? Perhaps this is why the Zack who always smiles so brilliantly in front of us has such a self-destructive side at the same time.
In the film, the Zack family is relatively the least. The mother left the house when she was 2 years old, and the father and stepmother always quarreled for him; when it came to being disciplined, he said lightly that everyone would be beaten, but some People were beaten harder. He and Nina, two people who have never fully integrated into the family, seem to be destined to "never talked it out successfully".
I don't know if Liu Bing will think of his weak mother when he sees that Nina gives Zack a chance to come back again and again, and hopes that he will not suggest to Zack about domestic violence. When he asked his mother why he didn't leave his demon-like stepfather, she said that he is bad sometimes, but most of the time he is very sweet.
I really admire the director. It takes too much courage to show myself and my friends unbearable in front of the camera. An audience like me is even avoiding describing terrible experiences and thoughts.
The only time Zack shed tears in front of the camera was because of his son. When he found that he was getting deeper and deeper in the quagmire of life, seeing that he could no longer do what he promised, he was afraid that his son would repeat his mistakes. The biggest torment in life is that you clearly know that you are messed up, and even how you messed it up-you understand the dangers of alcohol and that you should not be dominated by negative emotions-but you can do nothing, you take yourself step by step Push into the abyss, become your own enemy, involuntarily.
Because of this, Keira is more or less lucky, maybe some small differences, let him become what he is today in the same alienated and restless growth environment. He would be so happy that he got a day off by "accidentally" because he misremembered the date; he would listen quietly when friends argued, examine the world humbly, and begin to absorb the positive things his father left behind.
The movie is over, and the real life outside the movie is of course still going on, but the director gently gave it a temporary happy ending. Nina learned to hug at her aunt's house, and I believe she will not let Elliot repeat their childhood; Keira left the declining hometown and finally completed the reconciliation with her father; Liu Bing seems to have decided to obey her mother and no longer live in the past; Zack's life seems to be back on track. Liu Bing deliberately put the status quo of Zack's father who rarely appeared in the film at the end; and the lovely Elliot is growing up happily. These two father-son relationships may be the key to solving Zack's dilemma.
Of course there are skateboards. With the growth of age and the ravages of life, skateboarding seems to appear less and less in the story, but we all know that it will not leave. When Keira bought the first car in his life, he excitedly showed the camera the protrusion of the rear of the car-in his eyes everything is a prop for skateboarding. At the end of the film, when Keira slid down a flight of stairs and failed at the last few steps, he and his friends stepped on the skateboard. There was no anger this time.
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