9/27/2023 0 Comments Treasure island parkAdmittedly, in some way, this particular story is a victim of its own success: as viewers we are so ingrained with basic plot structure that you’re expecting Matlock and his crew to be met with resistance as they try to get their skatepark approved. Part of skateboarding’s cultural appeal (at least for a square like me) is the pure punk rock aesthetic of it all: a sort of proverbial middle finger to authority, shredding empty parking lots and grinding rails despite “the man.” So in the case of Jeremy McNamara’s terrifically entertaining doc, it’s somewhat ironic that the real core of this film is a bunch of guys in Thrasher sweatshirts filling out permit applications and attending local government community meetings, where-surprise!-the stuffed shirts in charge are actually supportive of the process. The skate park in the process of construction.
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