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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Extended Reading
  • Billie 2022-03-15 09:01:11

    Gus Van Sant is yet another teenage film that makes you unable to extricate yourself. The director uses a large number of defocused and shallow depth of field lenses, handheld photography and close-up long lenses. On the one hand, the viewer is always close to the protagonist, a young man who is disturbed and disturbed because he has made a big mistake, creating a strong sense of immersion. On the other hand, It also shows the protagonist's self-isolation and isolation psychology. The soundtrack is also very blurry. Scenes and inner confessions of the young man alone using words to relieve pain are throughout the film, further eliciting empathy. In addition, since the core suspense is only revealed at the midpoint, the first half also has an emotional effect of alienation. The rambling and slightly disordered narrative time is also in line with the confusion in the young man's heart and the restlessness of youth. Many slow-motion shots and overexposure of a campus corridor are quite Iwai Shunji. Occasionally insert DV textured blurred recording images or wandering and slow-motion long lenses, showing skateboarding, rough and agile. Wonderful psychological externalization: Yuanjing Bridge changes between bright, dark, blurred and clear; a variety of mixed voices in the heart; the bathroom that is as long as the ancients has been upgraded to a long mirror, sometimes bright and sometimes dim, noise and birds and insects. (8.8/10)

  • Sigurd 2022-03-27 09:01:21

    It's just another elephant

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.