The more I try and make this film simple, the more complicated it becomes. It's as if there is always something just beyond my grasp smirking at me knowing that I can't comprehend it yet. But I see progress as well.Today I met two important characters for the film- not just for background either- actual characters that I want to put in the film to tell this story. One is the oldest (and arguably the most hard-core) lifeguard in Zipolite. He told me that he used to do rescues with a buoy and that he swims (what I estimate to be) 10 km a day!
I also met the family of a young man that was a patient at Piña as a boy and then became a lifeguard in his twenties. The stories are amazing of him walking on his hands from his house to the beach to pull someone out of the waves and then come crawling out with the victim. I can not imagine what that must of looked like. In more ways than one, he acts as a bridge between important parts of this story So things here are always getting more interesting.
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Wow. Lots to learn.
In a way it will never be complete. You just have to decide where to put the frame.
Visualizing the guy crawling down to the water to rescue swimmers is so cool, and so cinematic. I could imagine you doing some kind of reenactment, like they do in other documentaries (I'm thinking Errol Morris for one)But that may be reaching a bit for the present budget and cast....Anyway, sounds great!You mentioned this to me when we talked and, short of a reenactment, you could bring out the drama of it by having several different parties, in sort of overlapping scenes, recount those days and describe how he made it down to the beach to save people.
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