psychedelic and bewildered

Berta 2022-03-21 09:03:19

A movie with a distinct personal style, youthful, confused, and the storyline is also groping forward. Perhaps the above adjectives can also describe SANT, who is 60 years old.

The film mainly uses three methods to create a psychedelic atmosphere: blurred background, slow motion, and dislocated soundtrack.

The movie begins in slow motion of skateboards, then in coarse grained footage, and the endless youth begins. The swinging slow motion follows the boys all the time, drifting from one person to the other with no purpose.

The emphasis is on the soundtrack, when there's no dialogue, it's pretty much filled with background music, and a lot of the sound effects are anti-plot. For example, when ALEX talks to the police officer, there should be a lot of people talking in a tense atmosphere. For example, when the boy has sex with his girlfriend, the first part is very calm and then blends into the laughter of the young people, and the background music when the couple broke up is unexpectedly The soothing music is paired with silent images of girls getting angry. When the boy took a shower in the bathroom after the murder, the sound track slowly merged with the sound of the waves in the amplified flushing sound. When the boy shrank in a ball, the most amazing thing was the sound of seagulls. This may be a person's desertion. island? Of course, there is also Peking Opera, as well as a variety of musical accompaniment.

Bokeh depth of field is a very prominent feature of the film. Under the cold tones and wandering slow motion, everything around is blurred. Only one boy's melancholy face is so clear. Is he the only one awake in this chaotic world? Or is ALEX unable to see the world clearly?

Although the picture is very psychedelic, and there are often strange voices appearing like ghosts, it still can't psyched me, especially when the plot itself cannot be expected, after a story is divided into eight pieces, the order is irregular, and the feelings are no longer When it was in place, there was only a boy's confused self-talk. The boy's indifferent attitude, from his beautiful but empty eyes, spent more than an hour, and I just felt confused and confused.

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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.