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Eyes Wide Open

Eyes Wide Open

2009

Director

Filip Christensen

Runtime

46 minutes

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Synopsis

The modern movement in skiing is progressing more than ever, and it is hard to keep up with the stream. Field Productions has gathered skiers with all different backgrounds, but they all share the same vision about skiing. Yes, skiing is about taking risks to invent new tricks and styles, but most importantly to have fun. ”Eyes Wide Open dvd” gives you both. The movie includes top notch skiing in deep powder, big mountains, city streets and terrain parks featuring many of the most talented athletes out there. Look out for many unseen rail combos by Tom Wallisch and Even Sigstad, bottomless powder at Mica Heli with Åsmund Thorsen and Eric Hjorleifson, epic park heli shoots on the most beatiful places in Norway, JT Holmes and Eirk Finseth charging Lake Tahoe, Norwegian invasion in Montafon Austria, Jon Olsson shows why he is the best park kickers, and much more. Some parts of the movie is filmed with the RED One camera, which gives ski movies a whole new meaning.

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Overall Score

3.9/10

Limited

Category Breakdown

LGBTQ+ Representation

Limited

The film focuses on technical skiing progression and athletic performance. There are no explicit LGBTQ+ character arcs or narratives addressing identity politics.

Gender Representation

Limited

The documentary emphasizes high-level technical skill and physical dominance. The featured athletes represent a traditional masculine archetype of extreme sports.

Racial & Ethnic Diversity

Fair

The cast features a globalized distribution of talent from Norway, America, and Austria. It reflects the professional skiing circuit's demographics of the late 2000s.

Religious & Cultural Diversity

Fair

The narrative prioritizes individual vision and the joy of risk-taking. It celebrates a Western sporting lifestyle centered on personal style and creative truth.

Disability Representation

Minimal

The film focuses on able-bodied extreme athleticism. There is no evidence of characters with visible or invisible disabilities integrated into the narrative.

Strengths

  • Captures a globalized athletic community across diverse international landscapes.
  • Celebrates individual expression and the disruption of traditional sporting boundaries.
  • Focuses on the creative truth and personal style of individual athletes.

Areas for Improvement

  • Lacks representation of diverse gender identities and leadership.
  • Does not include characters with visible or invisible disabilities.
  • Provides little to no engagement with LGBTQ+ narratives or identity.

AI Analysis

Eyes Wide Open serves as a technical showcase for the evolution of skiing, prioritizing athletic agency and aesthetic mastery. The film captures a globalized subculture through international landscapes and high-level performance. However, the documentary remains functionally neutral regarding social identity. It focuses on the mastery of environment and physics rather than the deconstruction of social hierarchies or intersectional representation. While it successfully documents the disruption of conventional sporting limits, it lacks the social complexity found in contemporary narratives, adhering instead to the traditional demographics of the extreme sports genre.

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