Hello and welcome back to press pause, the newsletter about the many things I do to distract myself from an overwhelming sense of impending doom. Yesterday morning I stared in disbelief at my phone screen which read 1 September. How did we get here?
When was the last time you watched a film you so immensely enjoyed you did not want it to end / kept thinking about it for days / waited for a reasonable amount of time before watching again?
I gushed about Skate Kitchen to several film friends, but, alas, they did not like it as much as I did, so here I am telling you that I very much liked it. No, I adored it. Its portrayal of teenagehood is quite compelling and layered. I try not to think too much of my teenage years as they were characteristically dreadful, but boy did this film poke at my long-buried feelings about the discomfort of not quite knowing how to be in your skin, how to wrestle your body through the hormonal changes, in short, what to do with yourself in a world that fails to understand you. Do you remember that irredeemable tension between the urge to communicate and the inadequacy of unfledged teenage language? Well, Skate Kitchen does it all.
This was one of my favourite scenes. Can you feel what I’m feeling? The excitement of belonging, nothing is more powerful when you’re a teenager.
Before the long feature, came the short film (which I recommend watching too).
Until the next time we press pause,
shirin
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Yes, Shirin. I remembered the "tension between the urge to communicate and the inadequacy of unfledged teenage language". Partly because I am in it (I'm 20 btw). The awarkness in a group of friends who you are so similar, but so strange at the same time.
We'll grow out of it, don't we?
This movie is for me. Definitely watch it at some time. Thanks for sharing.