this be about youth and the sweet bitter memory of a man and john milius and that with big wednesday wide open his heart to the public and touch down . milius put together many little truth that become a concentrate of life lesson . the director find the perfect actor for the part ( not top actor and simply the right one ) and write a perfect story and introduce a move soundtrack . he draw the sense of youth inner life and with the fully emotional but logical understanding of an experienced man look and feel back the boy he be . a gentle touch and a lot of magnificent surf sequence and that poetry in motion . this be also a film about friendship . close friend and that what we need when we begin to be scar of life . character bear say something like you need friend when you be in trouble . who be more in trouble than a teenager . so this movie make one feel strongly close to the character and part of a growth process that be basically the same for boy and girl on this planet and despite generation and social condition and culture or intellect . this be to me the proof that big wednesday be and still be a masterpiece . regard and massimo .