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Hit 7 - Paranoid Park
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List Price: $19.95
Our Price: $14.99
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Manufacturer: Ifc
Starring: Taylor Momsen, Gabe Nevins, Jake Miller, Lauren McKinney, Daniel Lui
Directed By: Gus Van Sant
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Aspect Ratio: 1.66:1
Audience Rating: Unrated
Binding: DVD
EAN: 0796019813846
Format: Color
Label: Ifc
Manufacturer: Ifc
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Ifc
Region Code: 1
Release Date: 2008-10-07
Running Time: 84
Studio: Ifc
Theatrical Release Date: 2007
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Editorial Reviews:
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An unsolved murder at Portland's infamous Paranoid Park brings detectives to a local high school, propelling a young skater into a moral dilemma where he must deal with the consequences of his own actions. As director of My Own Private Idaho, Good Will Hunting, To Die For and Elephant, Gus Van Sant has created some of the most memorable stories about youth ever committed to film. New York Press says Paranoid Park boasts "the coolest pop score since Pulp Fiction " and the film was shot by the acclaimed cinematographer Christopher Doyle (In the Mood for Love, The Quiet American). Paranoid Park also features a cast of hot newcomers including Gabe Nevins and "Gossip Girl's" Taylor Momsen.
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Summary: Painfully slow Park
Comment: The two sentence sublot summary intrigued me enough to want to watch this movie. It basically took an hour and a half to tell a five minute story. If that's your thing...lots of slow mow and lingering shots of close ups of people's faces or objects, then you may like this movie. I know some of the shots and "effects" were trying to be artistic but by the end I was yelling at the screen, "get on with it". So, not for everyone but not terrible either. Rent before you buy defintiley.
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Summary: Horrible Movie
Comment: Well, this sounded really good, and I bet it made a great book, however the filmmaking and acting was unbearable. You'd get a snippet of story and then like 3-5 minutes of someone walking in slow motion or skateboarding in slow motion...i think we were supposed to be relflecting on the SHOCKING events that were happening in the movie except there weren't any. It was predictable and boring. Maybe if the approach were different and the actors didn't try so hard this would have been better.
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Summary: Disaffected Youth
Comment: "Paranoid Park"
Disaffected Youth
Amos Lassen
"Paranoid Park" is Gus Van Sant's film adaptation of Blake Nelson's novel about Portland. It was awarded the 60th Anniversary Prize at the Cannes Film Festival. It is the story of Alex (Gabe Nevins), a young skater who accidentally kills a security guard. Alex, one night, went to Paranoid Park, a skate park that was illegally built by punks, other skaters and disaffected youth. While he was there, Alex was picked up by some unsavory characters and Alex does something terrible. He then tries to cope with the event and writes a letter to one of his friends explaining what happened. Alex searches for a way to formulate his feelings. He is not a typical teenager---he is introspective and quiet and cannot verbally express his feelings.
Paranoid Park is a representation of the place where Alex feels he can belong. He is attracted to the skaters there and he wants to be in their company but he can't seem to find his place. His only real outward expression comes in his writing which are not much more than one-sided dialogues.
This is existential Van Sant as he concerns himself with how young people exist. Alex not only has to cope with what he has done but with his parents' divorce and his girlfriend who is both superficial and sexually forward. He is unable to express himself. "Paranoid Park" is Van Sant's version of "Crime and Punishment" and torment from within. The film is unpredictable and Nevins as Alex is a real find. The story is unique and holds the interest of the viewer throughout but Van Sant has done better. Nevertheless this is an interesting look at a culture that many of us do not know much about.
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Summary: An attempt with grandiose vision that successfully overdoes itself
Comment: With no idea of what this movie was about except with a recommendation from a favored source, I rented this movie.
The artwork for the cover and just the name conjured up imagery of a possibly dark but well-done story, mystery and the inevitable looming of a tragic event.
What ended up happening was watching a movie that tried so hard to capture that of the high school awkwardness, playing the most random soundtrack (of course Eliot Smith was present), long, drawn-out slow-motion scenes (see the longest shower scene I have ever watched), and terrible, terrible acting.
This felt like a well-done attempt by a college film student who had a passion for skateboarding (see random shots of skateboarders), who executed this movie by watching well-done films (see Darren Afronosky) and emulating those to create many of the scenes you will see here. See the splicing of present with past in order to keep the viewer enticed.
Basically, this is a low-budget film without the low-budget, terrible song choices, terrible acting (this felt like films I've seen in Spanish class in high school), and just bad attempt.
If you want to watch a film that does the time sequence story, murder, but with out the awkward adolescence, amazing acting, watch Boy A.
Basically, just stay away from this film. Seriously.
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Summary: Warning
Comment: This is one of those films that when the credits roll you look at each other in disbelief, its like the producers ran out of money and said Uh oh, looks like we got another Blockbuster Exclusive. Actually a good film, I just wish they had enough money for the rest of it.
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