{"id":41182,"date":"2018-02-19T21:53:38","date_gmt":"2018-02-20T05:53:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/?p=41182"},"modified":"2018-02-21T11:06:10","modified_gmt":"2018-02-21T19:06:10","slug":"ocean-warriors-chasing-the-thunder-mark-benjamin-marc-levin-2018-usa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/?p=41182","title":{"rendered":"Ocean Warriors: Chasing The Thunder (Mark Benjamin, Marc Levin, 2018): USA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/chasingslideshow6.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-42107 alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/chasingslideshow6-325x217.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"325\" height=\"217\" srcset=\"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/chasingslideshow6-325x217.png 325w, https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/chasingslideshow6-768x512.png 768w, https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/chasingslideshow6-1024x683.png 1024w, https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/chasingslideshow6.png 1443w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 325px) 100vw, 325px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Reviewed by Diana Diaz. Viewed at the Metro 4 Theater, Santa Barbara.<\/p>\n<p>To the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society and directors of this film,<\/p>\n<p>How dare you make an adventure on the high seas that registers as far too exciting for a documentary!\u00a0 No doubt this propagandist piece serves as both recruiting and fundraising tool for the future by making environmental work seem adventurous and exciting. How dare you!<\/p>\n<p>Generations of young men were lost to a life at sea, seduced by the lure of making money for what can best be described a wage not much better than slavery.\u00a0 This high seas adventure is on the MY Bob Barker features a crew of mostly volunteers!\u00a0 And you put them in real danger from environmental challenges, and from the crew of the Thunder!\u00a0 How dare you!<\/p>\n<p>Events depicted in the film and too dramatic to be true.\u00a0 The audience in attendance actively held their breath and sat on the edge of their seats because the pacing was so fast and the editing truly masterful.\u00a0 How dare you thrill us so!\u00a0 Any ounce of excess was cut out, and no scene ever dragged &#8211; an amazing feat considering that the crew is comprised of environmentalists, not actors.\u00a0\u00a0Rather than makeup, the crew sported real sunburns.\u00a0 \u00a0 In another case, a crew member risked hypothermia which gave her a bluish hue as she shivered for real.<\/p>\n<p>You couldn&#8217;t have staged this better if you were working with a script and actors.\u00a0\u00a0 But, how can we be sure you weren&#8217;t?\u00a0 How is this real and so involving?\u00a0 Aren&#8217;t documentaries supposed to be a little boring and super-informative?\u00a0 You gave the information so naturally, without dragging a little bit.\u00a0 How dare you!\u00a0 You made environmental work ballsy and sexy.\u00a0 How dare you!<\/p>\n<p>Sincerely,<\/p>\n<p>Diana Diaz<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reviewed by Diana Diaz. Viewed at the Metro 4 Theater, Santa Barbara. To the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society and directors of this film, How dare you make an adventure on the high seas that registers as far too exciting for a documentary!\u00a0 No doubt this propagandist piece serves as both recruiting and fundraising tool for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":180314,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[75,3,322],"tags":[220],"class_list":["post-41182","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-documentary","category-films","category-santa-barbara-film-festival-2018","tag-creative-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41182","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/180314"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=41182"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41182\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=41182"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=41182"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=41182"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}