Pahokee

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greg r @itsgregsworld Feb 19, 2021 Bad ass documentary making See more Jun 29, 2020 Film treatments of high school, fictional and otherwise, tend toward either the extremely mawkish or extremely cynical (or, the Hollywood way since John Hughes, they start with the latter and end with the former, to let you know that you can be cool and still get dewy-eyed with secondhand sentiment). Pahokee is something else entirely. The story of a high school in the second poorest town in Florida, the film follows four teens through their senior year so invisibly that it seems the kids themselves can't even see the camera recording them. All the elements of teen melodrama are present - a run for Homecoming Queen, an immigrant student working her butt off to ensure her parents' sacrifices for her are not in vain, a state football championship (and ensuing controversy courtesy of athletic commission officials), a shooting in a local park with half the town in attendance, a single parent student - but the filmmakers' vision is never anything less than clear-eyed and matter-of-fact. The end result is a deeper and truer sense of these young lives than any manipulative narrative backed by a sentimental soundtrack could produce. See more Jun 27, 2020 An intimate look at the lives of four high school seniors. The movie shares their perspectives in a way that is not often offered to people in small towns like Pahokee. See more Read all reviews

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