Aesthetic and adrenaline delight When my husband said we were going to watch The Fourth Phase ("Phase Four), I sneered skeptically, ‘Documentary? About sports? Snowboarding? 90 minutes? Well, well ..., and then stuck to the screen for an hour and a half and until the end of the credits with the voiceover video could not come off.
A delightful sight, amazingly conveyed the beauty of the water element in all its manifestations: powerful ocean waves, streams of melt water, crystallization of snowflakes, suspension of raindrops, swirling clouds on the tops of the mountains, an avalanche on an untouched slope ...
You have to see it, I can't put it into words.
All this splendor is not only the background for the story of Travis and his friends, who gathered to overcome the obstacles of eternal snow and expand their own limits of possibilities, water is a full-fledged hero of the film, it is fascinating.
The athletes themselves: Travis Rice, Mark Landvik, Eric Jackson and others in different locations and at different times, cause respect and admiration. These are not crazy daredevils-extremes, but sober-thinking professionals who fall in love with the elements and conquer it simultaneously calculatingly and with passion. What they do, made me during the viewing squeak and jump with excitement, surprise and delight.
At the same time, it is honestly said about the difficulties of this lifestyle, about the risks and injuries.
But Travis and his friends cannot do otherwise, this worldview and the way of self-manifestation in the universe, I even felt like a philosophical parable in everything I saw.