This is a movie more about the mental health aspects of first responders and what they bring home after years of service. How PTSD is impacting their lives and that of their families and the fact that they find it difficult to deal with the issues while on duty.
That said…. This is a difficult film to watch.
The Florian Knights were formed in 2017 in Vancouver, Canada by an active firefighter. It was his attempt to create a group of motorcyclists to ride with and to talk about the hard stuff, away from work. Each of the members of this chapter had a reason, beyond riding, to join the club.
A year or so later, in New York City, another firefighter was starting a riding club with the same name, Florian Knights. When he found out that there was already a firefighter motorcycle club by that name, they decided to open a new chapter to help fulfill the same purpose.
My motorcycle is my medicine.
Many of the Florian Knights, throughout the movie, comment that motorcycling helps cope with their stress and PTSD. This is where the first twist in the movie occurs.
The film switches from a documentary of the two clubs to an actual scientific study of motorcycling on the brain. A Doctor of Psychology wants to track brain patterns and uses many members of the clubs as test subjects. Putting on wired caps under their helmets to track how their brains worked while riding.
No surprise to us, motorcycling reduces stress by 28% according to the study.
Right after this segment the movie takes a second, harsher, twist. This twist I am not going to describe as I will leave it to you to create your own take away. I am also not going to rate this motorcycle move as I don’t think it can judge it on a normal scale, it is just so different.
What do you think of how this motorcycle movie ends? Let me know in the comments.
only negative was that they had so much content that some will think it is a bit too long at 2 hours. Now don’t get me wrong, it was a lot of fun to watch and it will be on my winter 2020 motorcycle movie list! I like the interviews and discussion around why people are doing the things they are doing. I really loved seeing myself or someone I know in nearly every person they talked with.
earn the money to save it. From this point on there was lots of race footage, from Glen Helen Motocross track, that look spectacular at times and bit hokey at times, BUT well done.
I JUST WANT 2 RIDE!! 