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The children flock around him, fascinated by his weird gadget. He gives them a few tips. Jessica hands out a few skateboards. Before you know it, skateboard mania has swept the village. Prerna becomes obsessed with skateboarding. Her father says, "Why are you playing with things meant for boys?
She's almost of marriage-able age. Maybe a marriage will put a stop to all this skateboarding business. Jessica and Erick look on with wonder at the mayhem they have wrought: children skateboarding all over town, practicing tricks, crashing into passersby, careening down the dusty streets en masse like a triumphant army. The village responds in kind, putting up "No Skateboarding" signs. Erick cracks, "It doesn't matter where you go in the world.
Everybody hates skateboards. Everyone thinks she is not only crazy, but a busy-body do-gooder outsider. She experiences serious pushback. The movie separates into two tracks: Jessica's attempts to get funding for the skatepark, and Prerna's attempts to carve out a space in her life where she can skateboard when she likes this means hiding her skateboard from her parents, sneaking out of the house, etc.
There are many intersecting issues on display: tradition and resistance, change and possibility, but the focus really is on all of the societal pressure girls face—particularly poor girls like Prerna. But with all of that in place, "Skater Girl" is also just a great movie about skateboarding. It captures the iconoclastic freedom and rebellion skateboarding has so often represented, and it joins a long line of rousing skate films " Lords of Dogtown ," " Wassup Rockers ," " Skate Kitchen ," and documentaries like " Minding the Gap " and the Oscar-winning short "Learning to Skateboard in a Warzone If You're a Girl " about the skateboarding craze among girls in Afghanistan.
The metaphorical power of skateboarding is an effective storytelling tool, particularly in coming-of-age movies like "Skater Girl," where skateboarding is awesome and fun in and of itself, but it's also awesome because of what it provides.
Skateboarding is not so much a road to fame and fortune, but a literal open road, where you can have an undiluted experience of freedom, independence, and mobility. Prerna can't go back to her obedient self. Both Jessica and Prerna face serious obstacles in their respective goals. One of the strengths in the script is its sensitivity to nuance. It would have been easy—and lazy—to make Jessica the Savior of the kids of the town, and of Prerna in particular.
But the film allows for complexity and is the stronger for it. Prerna has to make the choice to save herself. There is also an interesting side story involving a local businessman who initially refuses to fund the skate park but eventually gets on board because he realizes the venture is going to be popular, and he'll be running for office in upcoming elections.
Appealing to a person's self-interest is sometimes the smartest choice! There's also a fascinating scene between Jessica and the wealthy village matriarch Maharani the wonderful Waheeda Rehman , two very different women coming together to find common ground. What matters here throughout is the emotion ignited in Prerna, waking her up to life, to herself, to her capabilities. Newcomer Gupta is a revelation, as is Patel, who plays her mischievous and sweet younger brother. Both understand all of the complexities of this story and give beautiful and powerful performances.
There may be one too many obstacles placed in Prerna's way the pet goat is a prime example , stacking the deck against her so there will be an even bigger payoff. But overall "Skater Girl" is so gratifying it doesn't matter.
The final credits reveal that the skatepark seen in the movie, its construction shown in an inspirational montage, was actually built for the filming of "Skater Girl. It's used by the children in the area, by professional skaters, and for championships and competitions.
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