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“Surfwise” is another intelligent feature-length documentary by filmmaker Doug Pray, who has made several comical, enlightening films on pop-culture sub-groups such as the Seattle grunge scene (”Hype”) and hip-hop DJ turntabulists (”Scratch”) .
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In this modern film he paints a one-third celebratory, two-thirds tragic portrait of the Paskowitz family, a once-legendary surfing clan whose patriarch, Dorian “Doc” Paskowitz dropped out of mainstream society in the tedious 1950s, to follow a near-absolute rejection of unique materialism. Paskowitz and his wife traveled anywhere on a whim for over a decade, surfing up and down the Pacific, Atlantic and Gulf Coasts of North America, surfing, having lots of sex and making lots of babies. In all, the Paskowitzes had nine children, eight boys and one girl, and raised them outside the confines of “straight” life. Instead of going to school, the children surfed, and were reared according to their father’s brave, yet ill-defined personal ethic.
Although Doc’s decision to descend out preceded the hippie movement by almost a decade, his family’s lag intersected with the 1960s hippie-era rejection of cultural norms, and with the “Me Generation” self-absorption of the ’70s. But while these larger cultural shifts were widespread, the choices of the Paskowitz family were distinguished more far-reaching and severe than most of the counterculture types of the time. With no fixed income and a total abandonment of the American work ethic, the Paskowitzes were both legendary and tragic. As the children came of age, the strains of traveling together in a slight camper intensified, and the family fragmented and fell apart.
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Just how worthy they fell apart is revealed in the film’s second half, which skillfully explores the gloomy side of Doc’s impulsive and absolutist philosophical rejectionism. Each of the (now grown-up) children contemplate on the internal pressures (and joys) of their vulgar lifestyle, and how completely unprepared it left them to fabricate their bear entry into adult life. Although the Paskowitzes dominated surf competitions in the early 1970s — and got grand media attention and corporate sponsorship — because they were so naive about money matters, none of them held onto the money or the opportunities they made, and their professional careers largely fizzled out. Many of the children rightfully roar their inflame towards their parents for leaving them stranded without education or options, and the film is a sharp reflection on the potential hazards of obscene alternative lifestyles. Although Doc Paskowitz clearly shoulders distinguished of the blame, he remains a sportive and compelling figure. Many of his critiques of unique society are pointed and incisive, and his candid assessments of consumerism, wage slavery and sexual repression are dazzling due to his bluntness and accuracy. It is a complex portrait, and doesn’t offer easy answers to the viewer, but rather many disturbing points to ponder. Definitely worth checking out. (DJ Joe Sixpack, Slipcue Film Reviews)
Anyone looking for a shapely ode to the surfing life should end a moment before viewing this terrific documentary film about life in the Paskowitz family. Although surfing was the stated main focus of this highly unconventional family’s life, it’s not the center of the account that’s revealed in the film. Kudos to the filmmakers, who peel attend the layers of the record gradually until you net the sense of the awfulness at the center. We look a life that on the face of it might appear titillating — who hasn’t at some time or other wished for a more ‘authentic’ life? What if we could ride the rules of the prevailing society? What if we weren’t forced to be educated in institutional settings? This film and all the Paskowitz children, who thankfully are bold enough to assert of what they endured at the whims of two of the most narcissistic parents you’ll ever meet, will give some answers to those questions. Abundant with archival footage that makes the past near alive, the film also gives us interviews with everyone in the family that will resonate with you for a long time after you thought it. You may well be left with lots of questions after it’s over, but one is very contented to gawk that the kids seem to have made gracious lives for themselves despite the dreadful models that were their parents. In any case, this is a film for anyone who loves kindly documentary filmmaking — you don’t have to know anything about surfing to like this one.
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