![]() He also doubles back a few times to scenes we've already seen (a la Elephant), usually as a way of shedding more light on them, but eventually he gets around to spilling all the gruesome details, which would be enough to get to even the most jaded individual. The film dances around the event, largely because Nevins is the one telling the story (which he writes in a journal) and he isn't exactly anxious to relive it. ![]() Those are the least of his concerns, though, since his involvement in the accidental death of a security guard near the titular skate park, which brings police detective Daniel Liu to his high school to talk to the skateboard crowd about who may have been around that night and what they might have seen. With its high school setting and frequent shots of the main character walking the hallways in slow motion, though, the one it resembles most is Elephant (as opposed to Gerry or Last Days, which are just as lyrical, but take place in very different locales).Įvocatively photographed by Christopher Doyle (re-teaming with Van Sant for the first time since Psycho) and Rain Kathy Li, the film stars newcomer Gabe Nevins as a disaffected teen whose parents are divorcing and whose virginal girlfriend (Taylor Momsen) is pressuring him into having sex. Written for the screen and directed by Van Sant, based on the novel by Blake Nelson, the film is set in and around the affluent suburbs of Portland, Oregon, and has a nonlinear structure much like the films in his long-take trilogy. One of my biggest disappointments of 2008 was not getting to see Gus Van Sant's Paranoid Park in theaters because it never came to my area, but now that I have the Independent Film Channel (thanks, digital cable!), I have rectified this. Paranoid Park Jump to Edit Summaries A teenage skateboarder's life begins to fray after he is involved in the accidental death of a security guard.
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