There is enough color and charm in the film and in Kitchin to make the film work as a look at an interesting character, but the suggestion that there is something of inspiration or aspiration here really didn't wash with me. Yet again this sort of undercuts the message and tone of the film so, assuming it is the case, I can see why it did this. Perhaps it is unfair to assume this, but neither Kitchin or the film make any reference to relationships or the needs of others, so it is hard not to conclude thus. A son and an ex is mentioned in the background but never again in the context of the present tense it made me wonder if the son had a connection of if he was ditched because he didn't fit into the "do what you want" life. The second thing that it really side steps is anything in life outside of what Kitchin has decided he wants to do. We more or less know why Slomo can live this way – because his career has made him very wealthy, so while he shuns his former life, the truth is that without it he would be unlikely to be able to live the one he now has I guess this is not stated so clearly since it would significantly undercut the "do what you want" message, even though it is true. To some this will seem inspirational, but to me what was interesting was what the film stayed silent on. We get the true story behind the man, but from there it is shots of him being happy and talking about why it makes him happy. In a way the contrast with Twenty Eight Feet is good because in that film I appreciated that the subject was open about his choices, how he affords them and the sacrifices in terms of relationships he makes in order to live this life. Here though the reality is a story of a man deciding to do what he wants with his life and not let the path of the many dictate his, since he really has no value from it anymore. Indeed we open the film with some theories about who Slomo is and why he does what he does and in this regard it is an approach that reminded me of an older short film called The Edgware Walker, which also does the same with a local oddball known to everyone. Since watching the film I have read some daft comments about how inspirational this film is, how great the "message" is and, being honest, I have to laugh at such comments because this documentary is really just a curio over a local character who I guess people who have been there may have seen. Since then Dr John Kitchin has been better known as "Slomo" in his new home on Pacific Beach, where he spends much of his time gliding in fluid movement down the boardwalk on roller blades. Slomo is similar in some ways because it is about a man who was very successful in his chosen field but, as health issues came, he realized that he didn't want to just "be" a job and then die, so he decided to do something different. Slomo, directed by Josh Izenberg, is a documentary of rare value. Check the social security system's stats, most of you are not gonna' die wealthy, you're gonna' waste your adult life working for the wealthy and die broke, after taxes of course! Go have a good life now.The same day I watched Slomo, I had earlier watched a short film called Twenty Eight Feet, about a man who decided he would live on a boat, make enough money to get by and enjoy that "getting by" as his choice.
John Kitchin, an ex-neurologist and psychiatrist, and he previously owned 30 acres of ranch land with a nonprofit petting zoo for kids. There, he undergoes a radical transformation into SLOMO, trading his lab coat for a pair of rollerblades and his IRA for a taste of divinity. Most of all, he appears to be inspired while inspiring. In Pacific Beach, San Diego, we have Slomo, an older guy that is famous for his slow-motion rollerblading on the PB Board walk. John Kitchin abandons his career as a neurologist and moves to Pacific Beach. You wanna' help somebody, help yourself first! SLOMO is inspiring to someone that's enough help.
If you really looked, you can make money in America "Doing what you want," or while "doing what you want (on the side)." Stop your whining and get creative.
It's not about excuses like, "I don't have enough money to do what he did," or, "I should be or he should be helping people," it's more about do you want your freedom or do you want the money to buy the things that you think will give you freedom (essentially buying your freedom from the rat race) the desire for money over freedom is an artifact of Occidental rat race conditioning. John Kitchin quit a medical career to pursue his passion: skating along the boardwalk of San Diegos Pacific Beach. This was profound in the sense that he's correct, we're all conditioned to enter the American rat race we're born into it and expected to take this crap, produce that crap, and die after a life of more CRAP.
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