"Paranoid Park" is a film almost entirely without plot, without feeling, without really a hero. Everything in it is translucent. Viewed from a growing sense of exasperation, wondering what exactly happened when Van Sant told us to sit through 90 minutes in the head of Alex, who "just wants to ride a skateboard" ...
key to the interpretation of this study, sterility, is a scene where we see the gruesomely realistic scene of accidental death, caused by the main character. There is no reason This event does not flow from him no science. But we know the mechanism of functioning of the mind Alexa. We begin to notice the daily struggles of life, but rather an attempt to permanently stay beside him.
his parents divorce, his girlfriend wants to do "next step" in Iraq, soldiers die, and he, apparently at least, remains unmoved. Perhaps unconsciously, perhaps using the already proven defense mechanism, trying to engage in nothing, nothing to live ... Even cut in half the human body is not able to snatch it from the torpor. You can see that somewhere deep beneath the surface of the great, calm eyes Alexa, lurking demons.
Perhaps this is how you handle them - is riding on a skateboard, carelessly, thoughtlessly, the permanent idling ... Something connects it with the heroes of "Elephant", which, although committed multiple murder, it is difficult to accuse of premeditation. Van Sant's heroes are so oblivious to events around, so detached from life, that murder does not carry the emotional load for them.
difference between the "elephant" and "Paranoid Park" is just subtle detail - the "Elephant" numbness and sterility of this deadly disease, in "Paranoid Park" - a way to survive.
Paranoid Park - 8 / 10 *
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