Wednesday, January 20, 2010

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.

This sweet movie follows a handful of campers struggling with daily life. There's Holly, who is obsessed with chickadees and often sad, why is revealed at the end of the film; Spencer, who is like a little wise man; and Cameron, boy who has dificulty reacting with others, yet wants to have more friends.

This is what folks are saying about the SummerCamp movie:

Brief bits of real charm, personality and camp-life detail squeeze through, suggesting why some thrive in an oasis of animal worship, outdoor revelry and zero-to-hero popularity that forgives a nerdy rep back home.

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.

The children's fears and strengths surface on day 1. As the kids work their way around for 3 weeks it is interesting to see how children try to cope with the experience of being away from their home. The friendships made, the skills learned and the action taken.

See Summer Camp for free at Snagfilms.com

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