never ready

Emma 2022-04-19 09:03:00

Re-watched Gus Van Sant's Paranoid Park. The movie basically has no climax (this is the usual style of Gus Van Sant), basically a fifteen-minute short film is
enough to explain the plot. However, the director seized on the feeling of confusion, confusion and loss in his teenage years, some childish feelings that are trivial in the eyes of others, but Gus Van Sant shot a beautiful scene that lasted for an hour and a half. Come.

This Paranoid Park is ostensibly just a gathering place for a group of young people who love to skate. However, under the author's wonderful design, it contains the hope and yearning for growth, as well as the restlessness and suddenness of growth.

Gerry said, "Let's go to Psychedelic Park together on Saturday."

The protagonist Alex said, "I'm not ready."


Gerry said, "No one there is ready."


We were never ready.


Those precious firsts happened unprepared and became a habit in an instant.

Find yourself a badass before you're ready.

When you are not ready, you find yourself used to trading your soul for money with your time.

I was not ready to find out that it was just such a thing.


In this way, we passed through one level of unpreparedness and became who we are today.

See yourself in the mirror


Isn't it a miracle?

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Extended Reading
  • Milton 2022-03-19 09:01:10

    2010-01-15, you just came back from Changsha, right? You bring back a box of Jessbon after you finish drinking two bottles of Heineken! I love you! The film replicates the blue camera and slow-moving narrative, the male lead has no acting skills, the girlfriend's acting is contrived, and a teenage skateboard murder case

  • Demarcus 2022-03-18 09:01:09

    Gus Van Sant is so good at using long lenses that it fits perfectly with the narrative.

Paranoid Park quotes

  • Alex: I just feel like there's something outside of normal life. Outside of teachers, breakups, girlfriends. Like, right out there, like outside - there's like different levels of... stuff.

  • Jared: Dude, we should go check out Paranoid Park.

    Alex: Dude, I don't think I'm ready for Paranoid Park.

    Jared: Yeah, but no one's ever really ready for Paranoid Park.