That all sounds a heck of a lot like work to me.
Maybe the retro movement isn’t so retro after all. Soul doesn’t go away, does it? It always exists, and its presence is felt in “Believe,” a rich, textured glimpse into true surfing artistry and craftsmanship. This DVD allows the viewer to experience that glorious ménage a tois of surfer, board, and wave that is the essence of surfing.
Opening with lightening strike shredding from Dave (Rasta) Rastovich looking Curren-tastic, “Believe” slowly unfolds among smoothed-out mellow-dude acoustic grooves and multiple profiles of surfers, shapers, explorers, artists, and musicians. All these folks have something real to show and tell. It’s a refreshing respite from standard surf porn.
The hand shaped surfboard takes center stage throughout as the film flows quietly, softly along the long lines of endless arching turns and emits something windy and effortless in its atmosphere. Each surfer ponders the energy contained in the outline of a freshly shaped surfboard and extrapolates over solid surf performances from the likes of the Fitzgeralds, Neal Purchase Junior, Nat and Beau Young among others. A mandatory trip to dredging Indo occurs, and the waves are phenomenal. Timmy Turner Asher Pacey, and crew score “The Right” and “The Left” looking shallow, hollow, and vacant.
Cool quote from "Believe": “You’re not really sure what you’re doing when you’re doing it. But it feels good.”
This quote pretty much sums up “Believe”. There isn't some underlying purpose or agenda here. The DVD doesn’t exist to sell clothes or boards. Rather, it simply perpetuates the myth that there might be some folks out there surfing just for the love of it all.
