- remember "Psychedelic Park"
I think, "Psychedelic Park" is about the growth of everyone: youth, family, hobbies, secrets, love and mistakes. In that boy named Alex, everyone can see their own shadow.
The film is a cross between reality and memory. A blond teenager named Alex likes skateboarding, and his friend Jared took him to the psychedelic park, a skateboarding base set up by ronin, unemployed youth, students, etc.—a lot of things changed. The ronin in the psychedelic park asks Alex to borrow a skateboard. He promised to take Alex to pick up the train. This is just the curiosity that every teenager will have, but the next thing is too cruel. The railway security saw the two teenagers picking up the train. He ran up to stop them, but because of an inadvertent move by Alex, he lost his weight and fell onto the rails on the other side, crushing him in two by the oncoming train.
Since then, life can never go back to the past.
Alex ditched the skateboard and changed into the bloodstained clothes. He started lying in front of everyone. The secret was burning in his heart, but he couldn't say it to anyone.
The first time Jared takes Alex to the psychedelic park, Alex says, "I'm not ready". Jared laughed, "Nobody goes to Psychedelic Park when they're ready." A
lot of things, right? Obviously we are not ready, but it has come. Many times I think that life is up to you. How many surprises it takes before we can believe that the next second is always unknown. Life is indeed wonderful and worthwhile because of the unknown. However, those things that you don't want to experience, why don't they come in this way. Life is so exciting, yet so cruel.
When I was young, the world seemed to get bigger in an incredible way. Often I just close my eyes, and when I open it, I am surprised to find that the world is different from before, so fast that people can't perceive it. So the boy was forced to adapt. Everyone wants to wait until they are adjusted to face it, but time never waits.
The ronin asked Alex, is your skateboard not for sitting? Alex replied, I'm waiting. "I am waiting for someone." He repeated three times. Who are you waiting for? In fact, without that person, we are all waiting for ourselves, waiting for when we can accept this youth with peace of mind. But maybe when we feel at ease, youth will pass like this.
A lot of things in this film are very real. In other words, the entire film is a symbolic existence.
The psychedelic park is a symbol, it is a sad city in the heart of every teenager, an untouchable memory.
The divorce of the parents and the younger brother who is as bright as the sun are a symbol, the helplessness of being in the gap called youth, who is no longer a child but is still isolated from the adult world.
Love is a symbol, it was once thought to be the most difficult thing in youth. But everything will be eclipsed in the face of growth.
Extreme sports is a symbol, a hobby that every teenager would have. What kind of calling is that? Freedom, forgetting, temporary separation... Maybe I want to temporarily forget myself when I am not used to all this.
The diary is a symbol, and many things at the time would never be said to anyone. This youth has no place to rest; this mind cannot be told. What kind of torture have we suffered when we can't find an outlet?
Unintentional hurting is a symbol, the secret that we stubbornly guarded in our youth. It's just that in the film, it's brutalized. In real life, it can be anything. There is always one thing that makes us grow up, so that we have no one else to rely on except ourselves. Anyone can make mistakes in their youthful days, and while not as brutal as the one Alex experienced, it's just as breathless. I used to think that after that period of time, everything would return to the way it was before. But we have to wait until the real past to know that the years we have experienced are called growth. Time is never going back, and also, ourselves.
Alex is also a symbol, he represents all the me and you who were young.
"Psychedelic Park" doesn't have a great plot, maybe in the eyes of many people it's just an unintelligible independent film. Those who said this, they may not have that mood anymore, and look back at their younger self. But in the eyes of that boy named Alex, I clearly saw the loneliness and helplessness I once had.
Macy is the girl who secretly likes Alex. She saw his helplessness and told him to write a letter and give it to a friend or burn it. After saying these words, the boy stood on the skateboard and the girl led him on a bicycle. They had a good laugh. This is the time a teenager should have. But only these, people can never grow up. But we don't grow up as time goes by.
He wrote down his thoughts and burned them. Some things, after all, can't be said, only in our hearts.
At the end of the film, Alex falls asleep in class, and he dreams about the skateboarder again. It seems that everything has returned to the starting point, however, those are no longer the same, although only in our hearts. Despite all of this, only we know.
Maybe Alex's youthful thoughts can never be turned into a faint smile like ours. But it's okay, it's just a movie.
Through those pictures, I saw a girl who showed such firm eyes for her young love. That's my former self.
how about you? Have you seen your past self too?
There is always one thing that makes you grow and it is the catalyst of the years.
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