After watching this film, I suddenly feel that youth, the beast of the flood, is like a picture scroll in everyone's life, and there is always one thing that makes you grow up instantly.
The narrative of the film is an interspersed interlude of reality and memory. Alex went to Paranoid Park (please let me call it Psychedelic Park) with his friend Jared, who loves skateboarding, because Alex was lost in his youth ever since, and the narrative structure of the film can be seen as him trying to get it right time after time Realism of the inner struggle in the face of "this thing".
A child facing a broken family, a boy with his own little world, a lonely soul wandering between love and friendship, and he is just a child, except for the irreparable things that happened, he just did everything The first thing everyone will do: run away. The farther away the better.
Every picture in the film presents this hazy beauty, the hazy beauty and the hazy world in his eyes, as well as the truth of the things he is unwilling to confess. Every frame is a mess of literature and art, and the hazy lightness and the heaviness of the subject content do not produce a sense of incongruity, but just reflect a strong contrast and impact.
The various details about skateboards and skateboarders interspersed in the middle of the film have not become superfluous elements. It can be seen that Alex is constantly looking for various excuses for his behavior.
The use of various sound effects and dubbing also appropriately forms part of the perfect effect of this work.
In short, a thought-provoking story under the gentle narration, this story may be the projection of each of us on the road of youth. We have no way of knowing what Alex's future will look like, but it will definitely not be like successfully crossing the river of youth.
Paranoid Park.
Psychedelic Park.
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