lost in paranoid park

Fred 2022-01-28 08:22:24

After watching I fell asleep from four to ten in a depressed mood. Wake up and start quietly recalling the meaning of psychedelics. paranoid park. If it were, I would definitely translate it into Delusion Park. But I don't know who used psychedelic so accurately. So the whole movie is different. Lost and fantasy. Steady long shots and shaky emotions. A change of youth or a change of life based on a change of mind. If Alex didn't go to paranoid park. If Alex didn't lend the skateboard. If Alex didn't want to go buy beer with that guy. Maybe he can stay in the psychedelic park forever. But too often we don't have a choice.

gus films are always prone to extreme reviews. Remove long lenses. Beautiful boy. borderline people. There's also an excellent soundtrack. The rest is the siege that gus isolates the world from. variety in the city. People outside the city will never understand. When the people in the city step out of the siege and look back. All smiles and tears. In the end, it all condensed into that thick "fascinated wall".

my mom said. She couldn't understand why ChengC's paintings were so good. I said that was the generation gap between us. My mother said that was the loneliness and pain unique to your generation.

gus can always have an accurate insight into "youth". "Youth" of each generation. From deserted Idaho in the nineties to this park ten years later.
indifferent. escape. Refuse. Violence. Alex, if not the villain, is at least not a model of learning. But that's not really the point. Everyone is paying attention to and thinking about various social issues such as youth violence among single-parent teenagers. What impresses me is just the panicked look in Alex's eyes when facing Detective Lu and the chaotic voice in his head when he stands on the bridge after making a mistake. The penetrating truth reminds me many times of myself after I did something wrong. And the Alex in . Inexperienced playing for Alice. Stuck several times. In the end, he couldn't bear to hold up his middle finger to the piano. This is an emotion and behavior that I have also had many times.

That's the magic of gus. He always resonates with you in the most inadvertent detail. Insight into your mind. everyone is Alex, maybe.




Nothing has started yet. Our generation has not yet been defined. But we have been marked by the times. Skateboards are fine too. Even single parents. Everyone is somewhat "marginal". Then calm down and take a look. How fate has destroyed us. How did we destroy the world.






Paranoid Park. I guess that's everyone's utopia and everyone's disaster.





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The dividing line after 9 years, I was 18 years old in 2008 when I wrote this film review, and now I am 27 years old in 2017.
I was surprised that I was standing outside the wall of confusion.
Fate did not destroy me. I didn't destroy the world either.

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Extended Reading
  • Demarcus 2022-03-18 09:01:09

    Gus Van Sant is so good at using long lenses that it fits perfectly with the narrative.

  • Kasey 2022-03-26 09:01:13

    Indie director Gus Van Sant's new work last year, in fact, my impression of GVS only stays in "The Unruly Sky" and "The Last Days", and even the old-fashioned "Elephant" is not fortunate to see. However, his selection of each blond boy definitely reassures everyone. Skateboarder Alex takes a wrong step and slowly infiltrates and completely changes the path of his life, but has no choice between escape or redemption. The edge of "Psychedelic Park", depression, despair, pale, sensitive youthful colors and shaky panning shots remind me of LSD and the endless green grass of "All About Lily Zhou"... It is worth mentioning that A long shot of Alex's shower, terribly blurry and so unmarked...

Paranoid Park quotes

  • [first lines]

    Alex: Oh. Hey Uncle Tommy.

    Uncle Tommy: Hey.

  • Christian: Grown ups do stuff for money. There is no other reason.