Five high school aged kids set out in a van to travel 500 miles to see the ocean. Along the way life happens.
This is a form over content docudrama that succeeds as a work of art but is less successful as a narrative. This feels like a beautiful documentary, that might have worked had it been obvious by the shot choices and the way that things lay out that this free flowing trip across the Pacific Northwest was constructed by the cast and crew. I say this in part because it's true and because the film moves the cast across the country in a way that only movies can move people. There is no real sense of danger, nor is there any real questioning when things go on, the kids just keep going.
Sure this a hymn of freedom and of impending lost innocence, but it's a professionally polished one. The result is a film that I admire a lot more than I like. Its a film I would gladly watch with the sound off for the glorious pictures.
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