Paranoid Park is a skate park. In everyone's eyes, it is a gathering place for bad boys. Although the skateboarder doesn't want to be viewed badly, he's in a divorced family, he's rarely cared, he's got big bewildered eyes, can't tell things apart and escape reality. When he pushed an old security guard wielding a police baton to the rails and was crushed alive by a train due to his fault, it was the first time he saw such a huge bloodshed, and all he could think about was destruction, hiding, concealment, and forgetting. He was still confused, he just wanted to skateboard, he just wanted to get together with people he liked the same, he just wanted to have some fun when he was alone, why did he suddenly disappear from him? Murder at hand. When a girl who shared a certain language with him told him that the way to write a letter would eliminate worries, he accepted it humbly. He wrote the letters with sincerity, and threw them into the fire, watching them be destroyed, thinking that events would be destroyed as well. At this point, Elliott Smith sings Angeles, and the film ends on a black screen.
Maybe some of the cruel youth of the teenager is easy to be used by the director as the subject, but this subject is not so easy to express. If the director has a young heart and can understand the manic depression of young people, he can tell the whole story. For this type of director, I prefer Shunji Iwai. Some say Paranoid Park is somewhat similar to All About Lily Chou-Chou. But the two films are very different from the shooting angle, not to mention the crux of the teenagers in the eyes of two different directors. The juvenile delinquency involved in Lily Chou-Chou has nothing to do with society but with human nature. And Paranoid Park has been saying that the crime is the good boy, at least this good boy floats on the surface provided by society. Lily Chou-Chou is not shy about being more brutal, and Paranoid Park has been trying to cover up the gore that has happened. Just as one is in a dream and the other has woken up, how can the two be the same.
As for the suspenseful plot of the film, it doesn't really matter. This kid will escape. Then, the case will be over.
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