Skateboarding or Levi's, those things about youth.

Bernadette 2022-03-21 09:03:19




It's a cloudy day today, I'm listening . It was a sunny day after watching paranoid park, probably the day before yesterday. I'm still nibbling on the duck's neck and texting someone. To be honest, I still like this film, I like the soundtrack in it, I like the character Alex, I like handheld cameras and large grain film, I like long shots after another, I like its narrative style, but I don’t really like the story, see It's absurd and flimsy.


Alex lives in a fatherless family, a little paranoid, a little silent, and has a 13-year-old brother. In the paranoid park, there are always some children who are different from others. They live in the abandoned or cold eyes. Here you can always find people who are miserable than yourself, so you don't have to try to understand other people's stories, so you won't compare. , don't be ashamed. It was a place where a group of young people crossed their youth, skateboards and caps, chewing gum Levis, shaking cameras and big-grain film, as restless as their entire youth. He went to climb a train with a stranger, and then accidentally killed the railway keeper. He quarreled with several himself, and his fear and guilt instantly promoted him to grow up so that he could face the police calmly and abandon his beautiful but noisy girlfriend. Macy taught him that when there's something you can't tell someone, just write it down, write a letter. It's fine after writing it, send it or not send it or burn it. So he wrote it, wrote it in a place full of wind and grass, and burned it as if he could burn a sinful self. Like those narrations in summer rain "MiG, some people, will forget bit by bit, will run away, but you and I will come here and burn everything."



The look of Jared in the car, to Alex in the bathroom The long shots, I like both. The soundtrack leans more towards post-rock and electronic, which is delightful. The end credits are elliot smith. I like him so much. So I gave the movie 4 stars for the soundtrack.

I also just watched "The Backseat on the Sixth Floor" and "Broken Things" a few days ago. The ending scene asked everyone, what is youth? "Youth is not afraid of the earth's gravity" The answer is too cute, but also too real . Youth is to have the time and ability to fulfill one's wishes and have the courage, so it is like living in real life, living in youth. Paranoid park doesn't feel vibrant at all, well, it's actually decadent, it's an amusement park for a small group of shady children.




As for me, I'm still thinking about the great thing about going to the zoo tomorrow, and I miss the giraffes and pandas so much more than the rock scene or the depressive movie. Or a positive life looks better, eh. It should be like this.



I hope it will be a sunny day tomorrow, so I can bask in my moldy self.



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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.