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‘The Realness’ Episode 13: ‘The Crash Reel’
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Christopher Campbell
Dec 19, 2013
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Episode #13 – The Crash Reel: Libsyn Player

This week we review The Crash Reel, Lucy Walker’s new film about snowboarder Kevin Pearce. The film has a number of passionate fans, and we try to pin down exactly what it is that people are responding to. Is it the film’s structure, an arc of injury, hubris and redemption? Or is it the way that the film manipu…

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