"Skate Boy" is not just about skateboarding

Gracie 2022-09-06 06:38:16

very special. I didn't read the introduction before, so I read it with an attitude of understanding skateboarding. At the beginning, I saw a lot of young man skateboarding in the documentary, but "They are all at odds with their parents and family, and they want to escape from society and family, so they go skateboarding-skateboarding is their salvation." This makes me uncomfortable, I I think skateboarding is more of a hobby, not to say that you can only play skateboarding if you have to be in that situation. Good grades can still be played. It has become too limited, too circle. Then, I found out that this film mainly wanted to talk about domestic violence. From the perspective of three skateboarders, talk about their family situation when they were young and the impact of domestic violence on them. I also interviewed women in such an environment, what their thoughts and attitudes are. The most ingenious thing is that Zack, among the three skateboarders, went round and round. For various reasons, he never came out of a disharmonious family, and finally became a perpetrator of domestic violence, so that his own children could not be normal. family. The director and the other two Banzi have had a friendship for more than ten years, and their development is also shown through the video. There is a feeling of growth.

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  • 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.