A young man accidentally killed a train security guard, a series of psychological struggles... The picture set by Gus Van Sant is like Alex's thoughts with chaotic jumps, but they are closely related to the protagonist. Choose to escape, and inner unease. The indifferent expression on the surface intersects with the diary of messy thoughts. The contradiction of a teenager...
Accepted the suggestion of the girl who seems to be obsessed with him and started to write a diary, so Alex writes with a pencil on a horizontal strip of paper again and again throughout the film. "Paranoid Park" seems to be a story that I don't know how to tell, but it is just repeated over and over again... In the
end, the thick stack of paper was put into the fire like this, and the young man's venting In your heart, what kind of mood is it? The director did not continue, because this is no longer the point. In the word-by-word narration, the story has not been told, whether it is love or uncontrollable fear. For those days of youth, it is like a mystery. Gus Van Sant still takes the trouble to describe it again and again, and then hides another mystery, to be continued...
The filming of skateboards in the film makes People feel a kind of secluded taste. The confused and ambiguous sunlight and the ups and downs of the silhouettes make people feel even more inexplicable under the background of music with special voice lines.
It is because of "Paranoid Park" that I started to fall in love with Elliott Smith madly. He used his "Angeles" and "The White Lady Loves You More" in the movie. It seems that I always look for the music in the movie later, maybe It's a habit, I always feel that the melody presented in the movie always has a uniqueness, and the feelings will gradually drown in the notes...
Elliott Smith, I really regret getting to know him too late... Really...
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