Documentaries don't fit with my initial plan to make this blog about movie stars and mainstream junk. I don't care, I'm going to include them anyway. I love documentaries, especially ones that let you see into other peoples lives. Some films are fascinating.
Surfwise (2007), directed by Doug Pray is a documentary on the Pakowitz family, known as the first family of surfing. In short, this film is about a family that lives outside of society, and the happiness as well as the consequences of that lifestyle. The nine children were home schooled and the family lived on the road or in a camper on the beach. Through newspapers, interviews, photos, old footage, this film captures the many sides of this lifestyle choice: living the utopian dream, glowing health from eating well, exercise and communion with nature; poverty in the lack of clothing, and livable space.
Dorian Pakowitz wrote a book called Surfing and Health. He says (I am quoting what his son said in the movie from memory) in the past, humans fought to feed themselves each day but now, the challenge is to escape food, to limit our food intake to what we need and what is good for us.
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