The documentary Minding the gap was nominated for this year's 91st Oscar for Best Documentary. I have already begun to rub my hands in anticipation, hoping that it will harvest golden statuettes. Minding the gap tells the story of three boys who met through skateboarding, Zack (handsome white boy), Keire (optimistic black boy) and Bing liu (cool Asian boy), like a skateboard representing adventure , they are debauched, uninhibited, and long for freedom.
If it only talks about skateboarding, this documentary will not stand out. If it only tells the story of life full of problems and finally solved, it will not arouse everyone's interest. This real documentary truly records three different races and different family backgrounds. Teenagers who also love skateboarding grow up together, examine themselves, their families, and their futures. From different perspectives, their problems may have been solved, but they may not be solved. That’s why I recommend this Minding the gap .
For me, after watching this film, skateboarding can become skiing, it can become running, any sport that can bring people together. The Chinese name of this documentary cannot be simply translated as skateboarding boy. The director of the film, Bing liu, expressed a point of view in an interview: "Directors are the same as books and music. After musicians create music, how to interpret and understand this? A piece of music should be the freedom of the audience. The name of this film is "Minding the gap", in fact, it wants everyone to be careful about Gap, Gap is a scar, and it is also a generation gap, a trench that people usually bury inadvertently."
Adler once said in the book Inferiority and Transcendence that there are three problems that must be faced: living on earth as a life / living in society as an individual / as a man or a woman to face the emotions brought by gender , if the "Wandering Earth" is faced with living on this earth after watching the movie, then Minding the gap may be faced with the emotions brought by living in society as an individual/as a man or a woman facing gender.
Why on the verge of a nervous breakdown, just take a skateboard and everything will be fine?
In physics , human individuals can feel many negative emotions derived from disorder and chaos. When consciousness begins to become orderly, we will feel a sense of happiness, which is a kind of entropy reduction behavior;
The concept of flow in psychology also corresponds to the order of life and individual consciousness and a sense of happiness. Skateboarding with friends, reading a good book, doing a good project, holding a child's hand and growing old together are all very useful. Happiness matters, as long as you do it seriously and focus on thinking;
The book "Exercise Transforms the Brain in Biology " says that exercise makes the body produce a variety of hormones, endorphins make us more integrated into the group, dopamine makes us happier, and makes our brain cells more active.
Why does this Minding the gap make me cry so much?
I think of running 10 kilometers outdoors at minus 10 degrees with my brokenhearted friend
I remember being helped by my teammates in the Gobi with a high fever of 39 degrees
Reminds me of everyone's cries as I cross the end of the desert
Reminds me of running and dancing with my friends to the music of the roadside band when I ran across the Eiffel Railroad
Thinking of the words from my friends on the snowy road
Think of those wonderful moments with your friends.
Full of unfortunate childhood experiences and struggles in life, how to face and solve various problems such as domestic violence, single-parent families, alcoholic fathers, and racial discrimination? In the film, some people are positive, some are negative, some choose to love, some choose to escape, but in the end they all choose to face these problems, and there is no one way to solve these problems intuitively, just like the title of Minding the gap. Those moments that belonged to him/them in real life:
In the end, the director of the film, Liu Bing, said his original intention for making this film: I need to move forward, not live in the past.
Liu Bing asked Zack, Keire, and Nina, what did they get from this documentary? (This paragraph really makes people cry, even if it is chicken soup, it is warm to drink, and there are better and warmer things than friends)
Zack: Struggling to live, I don't want my kids to be like me, so I run away from it all.
Keire: Like a free session, healed.
Nina: I've always been someone else's daughter, mom, girlfriend, never having a chance to figure out who I am.
Article source; WeChat public account "The Miracle of Flying"
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