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Point break 20219/2/2023 This takes the conversation back to irony and its misuse, the cluttering of it in modern revamps and reboots. When the action bursts, it isn’t only satisfying due to its construction Point Break makes you care. The rush of Bigelow’s film goes beyond her own qualities of disruption it’s a joyride unlike any other as Bodhi (impeccably played with a simple smile by Patrick Swayze) says, “acid in your mouth.” A particular bank robbery/street chase provides a blueprint for Bigelow’s mastery in escalating stakes via personal relationships. It’s up there with baseball and air conditioning and John Wayne each parodied as much as they’re celebrated. The fact that the film is also one of our greatest American treasures only helps things. It’s Americana without the importance stressed by male creators, simply let loose from constraints of how these characters are supposed to be viewed. Their bonds are real, flesh and blood, molded by the sea and the air and the salt by the fire on the sand. What drives the nerves and sears the skin is Bigelow’s deep-rooted knack for utilizing excitement as punctuation marks within sentences of subverted dynamics, prepping the audience by building fascinating portraits of boneheads.īut they’re not just boneheads, and that’s the ultimate takeaway from Point Break. The template, an undercover cop invading surfer subculture to gain bank robbery leads (which has been rehashed to death across DTV/B-grade modern actioners), is just as important as the plot in any other blazing classic: it’s not. Bigelow shoots bodies in the utmost structural way fit, rabid personalities of adrenaline against lanterns of flame and crashing water. It's celebratory and freeing in visceral expectation, as well as a dissection of its subjects. Point Break not being made by a male provides *one* route - to capture certain teams and structures as they are, rather than providing a sort of mythic stature towards cliché. This is a movie about those pesky, manly men, but it finds genuine beauty in them not endorsement, only empathy. Because, even as the whole classification of action is upended, Point Break is one of the most effective rip roarin’ rides of the 1990s, fully grappling with its communal distinction to showcase action without any fake ‘bro’ sheen.
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