Psychedelic Park after the Elephant

Kaia 2022-03-21 09:03:19

In 2003, Gersfan Sant's "Elephant" won the best film and best director at Cannes, and in 2007, Gersfan Sant won the special jury award for "Psychedelic Park". "The Uninhibited Sky," "The Elephant," and "The Psychedelic Park" are like the G. Svan Sant youth trilogy.

The three films are all about the confusion caused by youth, growth, the love of boys and girls, and the violence that adolescence should not experience. In the youth trilogy of G. Svan Sant, there has never been a lack of handsome and handsome men, and every beautiful boy is so lovable. The establishment of the special style of "Elephant" is full of expectations for "Psychedelic Park". After watching the movie, I think "Psychedelic Park" is far from being as good as the first two films.

No matter how dark and bloody the adolescence was, the director still shot these three films beautifully, the golden wheat waves in "The Uninhibited Sky", the changing sky in "The Elephant", and the grass in "Psychedelic Park". , whether the picture is beautiful like a landscape painting with flowing clouds and flowing water, or an oil painting with deep colors, it can't cover the pale and confused youth. In "Psychedelic Park" we can still hear the same psychedelic and varied soundtrack of G. Sven Sant. The pictures of skateboarding in the movie "Psychedelic Park" are really shaky and psychedelic, and I really like them very much.

G. Svan Sant presents the trilogy of youth in a subtractive way. The ups and downs of the male prostitute's cross-border search for his mother in "The Uninhibited Sky", when "The Elephant" has no complicated movie plot, it is a one-sentence school gun news story, the director let the calm in the first half of "The Elephant" to contrast the second half The outbreak of the game promotes the development of the plot by switching the visual angles of multiple characters. "Psychedelic Park" as a whole is much simpler than the first two films. It is almost a one-sentence manslaughter story. This time, the director even omitted the final climax of the movie.

After 60 minutes of watching "Psychedelic Park", I started to look forward to the director's haircut. After 100 minutes, I still didn't see the breaking point, and I couldn't sit still. Until the last minute of the movie, the director did not let the movie plot Come on a spurt. It turns out that youth is so confusing sometimes. The director just wanted to tell us how uneasy and confused a boy is after he did something wrong. He didn't want to discuss other things that had nothing to do with youth, and he didn't want to use morality to judge the boy's right or wrong. Maybe it's because the movie doesn't have a volcanic climax that makes me think it's not as good as the first two.

The images of parents in movies are always so vague, just as dispensable as their status in the hearts of adolescents. Most adolescents seem to ignore their parents' warnings, and most of them are reluctant to communicate with their parents. Share more things with your companions, or write them in a small diary, or write them on letter paper and burn them later. Maybe we've been so depressive in the past.


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Extended Reading
  • Laverna 2022-03-19 09:01:10

    Taylor Momsen really has a bitch face since childhood. .

  • Olin 2022-03-23 09:03:21

    The shower part was depressing.

Paranoid Park quotes

  • Detective Richard Lu: No mayo? You got to have mayo on that.

    Alex: Mayo is sick.

  • Macy: They should be out now, dude.

    Alex: What are you talkin' about?

    Macy: The war, Iraq, no? What do you think?

    Alex: I really don't care.