2021 Directed by Manjari Makijany
Prerna, a teenager growing up in rural India, comes of age when she’s introduced to the sport of skateboarding. As a result, she has to fight the odds to follow her dreams and compete in the national championship.
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After Skater Girl was shot in Khempur, a village near Udaipur in Rajasthan, the skating park that was built as a set for the movie was donated to locals. Which is probably the best thing about this well-intentioned but slight film.
Skater Girl is a fairy tale. Debutant director Manjari Makijany and her sister and co-writer Vinati Makijany imagine that a foreigner with a skateboard can triumph over the thorniest fault-lines in rural India – patriarchy, caste, horrific double standards and regressive conservatism. The skateboard isn’t a toy. It becomes a symbol of freedom, courage and resilience. Follow your passion, the film exhorts – without a smidgen of subtlety. The Skater Girl of the title is named Prerna, who of course becomes an inspiration.
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Darf ich präsentieren: Mein Überraschungshit dieses Wochenendes! Nach ein wenig herumwühlen auf Netflix bin ich auf diesen Film gestossen. Skater Girl. Ein Film über das Skateboarden in Indien, der nicht nur auf einer wahren Geschichte beruht, sondern letztlich auch viel Leben in das kleine Dorf Khempur gebracht hat.
Skater Girl ist etwas ganz Besonderes, denn das Thema ist gänzlich frisch und unverbraucht im Filmbereich. Und nicht nur das, sondern auch der Sport an sich ist noch relativ jung in Indien. Dieser war zwar schon eine Zeit lang populär, erhielt aber noch einmal so richtig Auftrieb als Ulrike Reinhard 2015 in Janwar einen Skatepark errichtete. Das Ziel war es nicht nur den Kindern eine…
“Very nice. Very nice. Very nice”
Your usual disney channel ultra generic allegedly inspirational westernized foreign stuff, except this one is also reductionist white savior colonialism wokeist bullcrap.
Yay white people!!
Good intentions aside, this is all really shallow and one dimensional.
It did lead to an interesting discussion among my kids about social inequality and women's rights after which they all cuddled their Xbox and Switch as I said I hoped that they would appreciate how good they have it a bit more after seeing this film.
Yay white people!!
This one felt disposable. Take a sappy inspirational sports formula and combine it with white savior complex (English, multiracial at least).
And in general, I kinda push back against white saviorism criticism, as I think it's become too overused in any situation a white character helps a poc in a film. But this one feels guilty of it. Especially since the advertisement, from the trailer to the poster to the title, makes you think it's primarily a coming of age film for an Indian teenaged girl.
But they cram the English character and her good deeds in and give it about equal screen time, they show this westernized activity as saving the Indian youth from their Eastern ways and they…
