Keanu Reeves (“Jeff,” from Paula Abdul’s Rush Rush video) stars in Point Break, a film masquerading as action cinema but in truth a haunting meditation on identity, lawlessness, and the futility of resisting the ocean’s will. (Or at least we assume Werner Herzog would describe it that way.) Johnny Utah, a former quarterback now shackled to bureaucracy, descends into the chaotic underworld of surfers who rob banks not for money, but for meaning. At their center is Bodhi—part surfer, part philosopher, part doomed Icarus—whose search for the perfect wave mirrors mankind’s eternal desire to conquer nature, only to be obliterated by it.
We speak of masks—both literal and existential. Of skydiving as an act of metaphysical surrender. Of meatball sandwiches, consumed with the desperation of men who know the void. You may think this is merely a buddy-cop thriller. You are mistaken. This is about the death of the self.
Also, Gary Busey is in it.
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