fall or redemption

Lavonne 2022-04-19 09:03:00

A name that can easily lead to reverie.
For the name of the movie, but also for the beautiful boy on the poster.

I thought something weird was going to happen.
Smoke-filled woods, a box buried in the dirt, a past, a romance

, these are not
psychedelic parks, just skateboard boys' paradise
full of rebellion, debauchery and uninhibited taste, and a hotbed of crime.

The content of the video couldn't be simpler.
A teenager named ALEX likes to skateboard. He accidentally killed someone in this park, which was originally his paradise, and suffered from inner torment, and heaven has turned into hell.

Just like the question that a child who has done wrong will face, whether to confess or hide, it is repeated in the mind and lingering.

Responsibility is always a problem that people cannot face up to.
Afraid to face it, choose to run away from it.

ALEX is also, some details in the movie depict his psychology vividly. Self-confessions after killing people, throwing skateboards, calling and hanging up. There are also the sounds of birdsong and water in the bath, which gradually expanded and blended with each other, and a vacuum appeared in the heart, which was filled with these sounds.

Some people say that the film ends with an open ending, but I don't think so. ALEX wrote down what happened, and the fire burned, and he said BYEBYE with this unbearable memory, and his soul was redeemed.
As for whether he was caught in the end, who knows.

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Paranoid Park quotes

  • Macy: They should be out now, dude.

    Alex: What are you talkin' about?

    Macy: The war, Iraq, no? What do you think?

    Alex: I really don't care.

  • 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.