Summer Camp In The Movies

By Lonnie Lorenz

Movies about Overnight Summer Campare filled with old cabins, s'mores, bugs, archery, summer love, and much more. Most of the summer camp movies never have a real lifclearly have a less than wholesome appeal. That is until the movie Summercamp! arrived on the scene. This move is a documentary that lets parents take an inside look at the coed summer camp Swift Nature Camp located in the northwoods.

"Summercamp!" Shows the outside world that the camp experience may provide Sunsets over the lake but its living in your cabin with a bunch of others that provides the interpersonal interactions. The Flaming Lips, provides a fun active soundtrack. The timeless aspects of camp with its no laptops or Gameboys policy makes SummerCamp a place of dedicated time. The modern world intrudes only when campers speak of their medications. Staff suggest that active kids need less pills and so camp is a great place to run, jump and be tiered every night.

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 the SummerCamp movie:

How free and how troubling childhood can be, for one thing, and how we all improvise our way toward growing up. Bradley Beesley and Sarah Price's movie only seems minor on the surface. Like all good nonfiction works, it observes the specific until the specific turns universal, and the universal until you find yourself moved beyond words.

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 Snagfilms.com

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