Jay Moriarity: Live Fast, Die Young.

James Dean, Kurt Cobain, and Marilyn Monroe - few of the iconic personalities that shortly yet hugely influenced and molded the pop culture. In their idiosyncratic ways, their public private lives, even more probing after they have died, have had recurring linger, as if a touchstone to the constantly resuscitated morals of this generation.

Allow Russovoir, perhaps for the first time in mainstream pop culture, to introduce and add Jay Moriarity: a dreamer who died at such a young and precocious age of 22 doing what he loves, surfing. Live Like Jay.

Jonny Weston, who played the surfing luminary, could have had the relatively easiest role. Charming really, than say, impressive. But we're not particularly focused on their performances; we just need them to deliver, to embody, to simply be, tolerable. A powerfully moving life story is what gets the audience; in this case, the beauty of the sport. It's likely the audience is drawn to the relationship of the ocean on the big screen than anywhere dry. So much so that we are attracted to the picturesque waves and how surfing, through Weston, is frustratedly enviable; a pouring jealousy to take one's breath away.

"If you look hard enough, there's always a way through."

To Gerard Butler, it's arguably a different tide. How shallow it is to judge his performance only on screen. Rumor has it Butler almost died learning how to surf for the role, for the film; he isn't a surfer by birth. That alone deserves a minute (or two - it was near-fatal) privilege with Poseidon's trident. What you see in the film consequently was months of practice with surfing mentor Grant Washburn. Russovoir thought everything else didn't matter and matter at the same time, as if were hot and cold valves that display a rather impressive stage presence - a trial and error to a heart-warming.

Chasing Mavericks is most inspiring since Soul Surfer (2011). One would wonder had Moriarity and Bethany Hamilton (click it), played by AnnaSophia Robb, ever met at a surfing event at one point. Each uniquely a marvel from sink or swim situations of their own, the film recounted the daring life of Jay from which despite untimely short, it was well-lived; as if enough trips to the ocean to see life half-full.