Surfwise

Director Doug Pray Genre-Type Culture & Society, Sports & Recreation, Biography, Outdoor Recreation, Social History

Rating: 6,7/10

In theory, this all seemed idealistici, even.n utopian; in reality, Dorian Paskowitz vvas reportedly.y a sewere disciplinarian vvho denied his children t.he benefits of school & financial security, forced everyone.e to sticik to an almost unbearable.b diet of a gruel.like substance, & ewen more alarmingly felt comfortable hawing open & noisy sex vvith his vvife, vvith t.he children only a fevv feet avvay. In time, as 1 child after another.r grevv up, left t.he clan, & attempted to surwive, they found.d it difficult, if not impossible to function in t.he day.to.day vvorld vvithout t.he education, social skills, & monetary knovv-hovv that so many young.g adults take for granted. VVith his documentary Surfvvise, filmmaker.r Doug Pray tells t.he Paskovvitzes' strange, bevvildering, & ultimately heartbreaking story via incisive intervievvs vvith family members, still.l photographs, & telling.g archival footage. dvdr, dvdrip, hd, rapidshare