What drew me to the film was the way Garth Van Sant had no opinion in The Elephant. I have been obsessed with this form for a long time, and I don't deliberately preach. I even thought that this kind of attitude is the form that all kinds of movies should have.
Unlike "Elephant", Paranoid Park has a small attitude. From some small details of the film, "any of them may have a much worse experience than you" "I don't know, I don't care, I don't like to read the news about the war in the newspaper" This kind of voice makes people fall into the heart of the character.
As always, the charming boy, the blurred temperament, the beautiful slow motion as always, the clean picture is the work of S. Van Sant. In the first half of the film, the skateboarder under the sky, Alex in the bush...with the perfect cooperation of Du Kefeng, it is enough to make the audience's emotions freeze in the memory of youth. The turning point in the second half was the director's use of Alex and the security guard who fell to the ground. The close-up of the two faces brutally broke the original tranquility... Then the film continued to talk to itself, and the slightly fragmented shots and plots were presented to the audience. Out of Alex's inner struggle, the confusion of youth.
I prefer to think that this film belongs to the category of youth films, but it is slightly cruel. Psychedelic colors can only be expressed in movies, calm but very tense.
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