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RJGrones (June 28, 2008 at 4:46 pm)
Great film..I was totally engaged from start to finish and loved every minute of it..Cool people all..
BigDaddy1968 (June 20, 2008 at 11:29 pm)
I think it's wonderful that you honor your father and may you continue to all your days.As a Jew though, I wonder if he was maybe a little TOO obsessed with The Holocaust. It seems like he felt guilty about it rather than fortunate.I remember, when I was 11 watching a movie about Jesus. At the end, when he was crucified, I started crying. It was sad. But I was rebuked saying "You shouldn't cry about that, but about Jews dying in The Holocaust."Can you relate?Big DAddy
marrrk3 (June 17, 2008 at 11:07 pm)
Me and my 4 bros used to play with the Paskowitzes when we were kids. We even went camping together a few times - I think Dorian saw the "open road" RV my dad bought for $2000 and bought his first. Once they had their camper, they were constantly mobile.I loved hanging out with them. I always thought that the mom, Juliette, was strong and beautiful. They was the only family that could wrestle all 5 brothers (us) simultaneously. Hope they are all doing well - can't wait to see the film. Mark R.
shaktimandan (June 16, 2008 at 5:25 pm)
Utterly compelling, thought provoking movie, I can't recommend it enough!
hometeamproductions (June 14, 2008 at 5:51 pm)
SURFWISE is entertaining and thought- provoking. My old friend, Poppa Neutrino, like Doc, raised his family in a non comformist way. The Flying Neutrinos lived in the streets and aboard homemade rafts they built from garbage. It's easy to judge Doc and Poppa, but in examining their extremes in attitude, others can learn about their own personal freedom and choices. It begs a provocative question: what worldview is ingrained in all of us that puts limits on our personal expression in life?
sferb (June 9, 2008 at 8:11 am)
I'm an ardent fan of unconventional, non-conformist approaches to life. As you can hazard a guess from my background, I'm not a big fan of society OR convention. Don't twist my words: I did not condemn the lifestyle. I condemned the father's egotism and old-school patriarchy megalomania in purposefully creating a large family just to turn them into his personal cult. He says he removed them from society's influence, but isn't he really just replacing that with his own?
sferb (June 9, 2008 at 8:07 am)
hmshanno,Oh please. I was abandoned by abusive parents, grew up in foster care and group homes, stayed in over 20 different shelters and ended up in a homeless shelter at age 18. You don't know anything about me, so it's kind of funny that *you're* the one making knee jerk assumptions about the person behind the comments. I understand perfectly well what the patriarch of this family is about.
elichans (June 9, 2008 at 5:26 am)
what about free will?
hmshanno (June 8, 2008 at 9:22 pm)
Since the film hasn't yet been released, I wonder how SFerb has such insight into things when she hasn't even viewed the film. The knee jerk reaction to these clips is pretty typical of our country. Anything which is hard to understand, or you can't wrap your mind around, is automatically judged with epithets of condemnation. It is hard to keep an open mind in "conventional society".
hmshanno (June 8, 2008 at 9:00 pm)
Thanks Joshua. Apparently SFerb thinks she knows more about your experience than you. I applaud this approach, which most likely was fraught with typical familial dysfunction, but was directed from a different view of culture. I don't see any child abuse, nor do I see any evidence from the kids interviews which would suggest abuse. The daughter says the experience of hearing her parents have sex scared her sexually. Is it easier to hear your parents have sex behind closed doors? |
