3/18/2011

Watch SummerCamp the Documentary

By Jim Lamberson II


Overnight Summer Camp A tradition that over 10 million children participate in every summer Memories of , s'mores, mosquitoes, sailing, summer romance, pranks and much more. Yet most of the summer camp movies clearly have a less than wholesome appeal. When watching them you clearly would not want your child to attend. That is until the Summercamp! the movie came to the screen. This move is a documentary that lets parents take an inside look at the coed summer camp swift nature camp located in the northwoods of Wisconsin.

"Summercamp!" knows the camp experience is eternal and the same for everyone: Sunsets over the lake are generic only when not seen from your own bunk. With its gently anarchic indie-pop score by the Flaming Lips, the film nods toward the timelessness that's one of the best aspects of camp -- no laptops or Gameboys at Swift, thank you -- but it also notes where the modern world intrudes. A lot of the boys and girls discuss their ADHD medication, while a counselor scoffs that happily exhausted kids don't need pills: "If your kid's acting crazy, it's not because he had too much sugar, it must be ADHD, let's go pump him full of drugs."

SummerCamp is a meandering movie focuses on a handful of youngsters struggling with their feelings. Holly, seems very sad and for some reason is obsessed with chickadees, at the end you understand why and it will make you cry: Spencer, loves to chat and to read large books ; Cameron, is a troubled lad who has difficulty fitting in with the other children Maybe its his homesickness that fosters this aggression.

This is what folks are saying about thinking about this Summer Camp Movie:

Summercamp! is a peek at what summer camp is really like for normal American Children, but it's honesty and its heart are ultimately what take it beyond mere documentation and into intimate and well-done documentary storytelling.

Of all the films, fictional or non-, that set out to capture the terrors and wonders of childhood and adolescence, and the treacherous borderline between them, I've hardly seen any that affected me this deeply.

Summercamp! maintains a gentle, lackadaisical tone that eloquently captures the triumphs and traumas of this ageless ritual.

See Summer Camp for free at www.Snagfilms.com

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