gus films are always prone to extreme reviews. Remove long lenses. Beautiful boy. borderline people. There's also an excellent soundtrack. The rest is the siege that gus isolates the world from. variety in the city. People outside the city will never understand. When the people in the city step out of the siege and look back. All smiles and tears. In the end, it all condensed into that thick "fascinated wall".
my mom said. She couldn't understand why ChengC's paintings were so good. I said that was the generation gap between us. My mother said that was the loneliness and pain unique to your generation.
gus can always have an accurate insight into "youth". "Youth" of each generation. From deserted Idaho in the nineties to this park ten years later.
indifferent. escape. Refuse. Violence. Alex, if not the villain, is at least not a model of learning. But that's not really the point. Everyone is paying attention to and thinking about various social issues such as youth violence among single-parent teenagers. What impresses me is just the panicked look in Alex's eyes when facing Detective Lu and the chaotic voice in his head when he stands on the bridge after making a mistake. The penetrating truth reminds me many times of myself after I did something wrong. And the Alex in
That's the magic of gus. He always resonates with you in the most inadvertent detail. Insight into your mind. everyone is Alex, maybe.
Nothing has started yet. Our generation has not yet been defined. But we have been marked by the times. Skateboards are fine too. Even single parents. Everyone is somewhat "marginal". Then calm down and take a look. How fate has destroyed us. How did we destroy the world.
Paranoid Park. I guess that's everyone's utopia and everyone's disaster.
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The dividing line after 9 years, I was 18 years old in 2008 when I wrote this film review, and now I am 27 years old in 2017.
I was surprised that I was standing outside the wall of confusion.
Fate did not destroy me. I didn't destroy the world either.
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