Lords of Dogtown (2005)

Rating:	★★★★
Category:	Movies
Genre:	Sports

In teenage angst and free-spirited rebellion, three friends bring a brand new definition to skateboarding. As fame and success throws wide open for them when the country embraces the sport with shameless madness, their friendship diluted with different ambitions and values bound for fork-paths of candy coated stars and decline.

Stacy is the goody good shoes of them, exemplary and kind which pretty much makes him a bloody two dimensional character with nothing interesting to offer.

Tony loves and adores the limelight, he loves the complimentary ladies and the rolling money, of most he likes being on the top of the world. He wants fame.

Jay. Now that's my favorite one. Jay is supposed to be the most talented of them all - they called him 'The Original Seed' whom devises fresh stunts and skateboard tricks. Aloof to money and disinterested to be the media clown, nobody can ever hope control that rebel. Jay is the decline, the self-destructive arrogant bastard. Jay is freedom.

It's quite astonishing to know that this testosterone filled film is helm by a girl! Director Catherine Hardwicke shot the picture capturing the details of their adolescence, the devilish speed and their friendship very well. She attempts to sneak in Sparklehorse version of 'Wish you were here', strumming the first few notes here and there in the show. With the Z-Boys returning when a close friend is dying, Hardwicke closes their biography running the full delight of the song.

Absolute freedom ironically served best in declines and teenage angst.