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Surfwise: The Amazing True Odyssey of the Paskowitz Family 
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Saturday, 04 October 2008
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Like many American outsider-adventurers Dorian Doc Paskowitz set out to realize a utopian dream. Abandoning a successful medical practice he sought self-fulfillment by taking up the nomadic life of a surfer. But unlike other American searchers like Thoreau or Kerouac Paskowitz took his wife and nine children along for the ride all eleven of them living in a 24 foot camper. Together they lived a life that would be unfathomable to most but enviable to anyone who ever relinquished their dreams to a straight job. The Paskowitz Family proved that America may be running out of frontiers but it hasn t run out of frontiersman.




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No matter what your view is about the Paskowitz family, the truth is that a whole lot of people do have a view. How couldn't you, if you learn anything about this radically unconventional family?

So, if you want to watch a discussion starter, this movie is right on? Should Dorian have submitted his kids to that ambulant lifestyle? Is the distinction drawn in the film between education and knowledge a valid distinction? If so, what matters most? Is a balance between the two something called for or not? There you have it: at least a few questions to get debate going.

Turning now to a more "technical" note, don't expect artsy angles, variegated lighting, or the typical professional caliber of surfing. That's not what the movie is about. So watch it and then see what you THINK! ... Surfwise ... get it?
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