A Skateboarder Perspective Review of: The Skate Kitchen
So, recently I watched the film directed by Crystal Moselle called "The Skate Kitchen" whom is about real skateboarders who I've been following for three years since I got into the skateboarding culture, and as a hobby. Since, I've been following Rachelle and the girls behind the skate kitchen it was interesting knowing that they got casted by Crystal on the subway in NYC.
For the film, as a whole I feel like Crystal Moselle did a brilliant job on portraying the skateboarding culture, and how it feels to be a part of the community itself especially as a women in a very masculine "sport" which isn't a sport because skateboarding is skateboarding.
The film was extremely cinematic, and shot beautifully in terms of how she wanted to portray the girls amongst the male skateboarders at the skatepark, and the struggles as being a women in general is shown through-out the film which was nice to see because the issues the main character had with femininity was shown very well and you could really understand how she was feeling.
The narrative, and flow of the film was perfectly done and I don't think there could've been anything different to change about the film apart from wishing it was longer because I felt like as a viewer, we only spent so much time knowing the main character Camille (Rachelle Vinberg) from living at home, to having family issues, falling in love and experiencing everything about life through skateboarding but as this film had real skateboarders, it gave the effect of it being more authentic and real in the perspective of a skateboarder throughout the film from someone who skates, I feel like the film couldn't have done a better job in terms of perspective, flow and character developments.
For the film, as a whole I feel like Crystal Moselle did a brilliant job on portraying the skateboarding culture, and how it feels to be a part of the community itself especially as a women in a very masculine "sport" which isn't a sport because skateboarding is skateboarding.
The film was extremely cinematic, and shot beautifully in terms of how she wanted to portray the girls amongst the male skateboarders at the skatepark, and the struggles as being a women in general is shown through-out the film which was nice to see because the issues the main character had with femininity was shown very well and you could really understand how she was feeling.
The narrative, and flow of the film was perfectly done and I don't think there could've been anything different to change about the film apart from wishing it was longer because I felt like as a viewer, we only spent so much time knowing the main character Camille (Rachelle Vinberg) from living at home, to having family issues, falling in love and experiencing everything about life through skateboarding but as this film had real skateboarders, it gave the effect of it being more authentic and real in the perspective of a skateboarder throughout the film from someone who skates, I feel like the film couldn't have done a better job in terms of perspective, flow and character developments.
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