tomcollinsx
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Reaching Reality
On the surface it is a sailing, surf-trip adventure, worthy of comparison to Bruce Brown's classic "Endless Summer", and is a worthy window into the too-often unglamorous realities onboard that proverbial "sailboat journey" we all fantasize ourselves on at some idealistic phase of life. Perhaps not for everyones' taste, but then again perhaps, exactly for others'.
What the film lacks in technical perfection by the Filmmaker at an early age, it makes up for in honest introspection about the alternating forces of periodic exuberance and self doubt, and the often unanticipated reality we discover when we actually arrive at the fulfillment of a dream.
The film's editing successfully constrains itself exclusively to the original amateur footage - literally dusted off from that closet where we too often relegate our dreams. At times, a situational buddy-adventure story, punctuated by solitary poetic reflections on the inward personal journey.
Perhaps this film parallels and resonates too personally with the journey of this reviewer, but then therein also lies the true value to anyone who has found themselves driven by a dream.
This film struck me most deeply of all the films at this festival, for its raw honesty and personal introspection.
On the surface it is a sailing, surf-trip adventure, worthy of comparison to Bruce Brown's classic "Endless Summer", and is a worthy window into the too-often unglamorous realities onboard that proverbial "sailboat journey" we all fantasize ourselves on at some idealistic phase of life. Perhaps not for everyones' taste, but then again perhaps, exactly for others'.
What the film lacks in technical perfection by the Filmmaker at an early age, it makes up for in honest introspection about the alternating forces of periodic exuberance and self doubt, and the often unanticipated reality we discover when we actually arrive at the fulfillment of a dream.
The film's editing successfully constrains itself exclusively to the original amateur footage - literally dusted off from that closet where we too often relegate our dreams. At times, a situational buddy-adventure story, punctuated by solitary poetic reflections on the inward personal journey.
Perhaps this film parallels and resonates too personally with the journey of this reviewer, but then therein also lies the true value to anyone who has found themselves driven by a dream.
This film struck me most deeply of all the films at this festival, for its raw honesty and personal introspection.
- T. C.
The previous review proves the case - before any comment on the film's merits and claiming that he doesn't go in for conspiracy theories, the reviewer immediately labels the subject an 'amateur topic', and brings up the red herring of 'conspiracy' by invoking it as possibly the work of Scientology, and reveals the ad hominem attack that is so commonly relied upon when other more solid refutations simply don't exist.
When he does get around to addressing the case laid out by the filmmaker, all he can say is to admit that 'based on their 'argumentation line' and "what they want you to think', that it makes sense to him. Duh.
Forget about 'what they want you to think', and simply be open to the math and the realities of what stands right before us that we still can't somehow explain.
The film is well done all around. The narrative voice and translations are handled well, and the numerous layers of math, geometry, physics and astronomy - and the implications of all of these 'coincidences' is compelling.