I went to see this film with high expectations to the "Muestra International De Cine", in part because of Elephant (2003) that is my personal favourite of Gus Van Sant.
The film is similar to Elephant in the part that show to us the "real" life of an adolescent.
Paranoid Park follows the life of Alex, a young boy who loves skateboarding, when his life change because of a murderer.
But this film is not only about a murder and those kind of stuff, is about real life; show to us a world where adults don't know nothing about their own child's and for me that is very real.
In the case of the main character, Alex, his parents are going to divorce and he spend his life with his friend Jared and his girl Jennifer. It looks that Alex have a good communication with his mom but when he need that communication, there's a phrase that resume all: is like "write the letter to a person who you can trust, not to your parents of your teachers, write it to me". A phrase like that is said to Alex by another friend and for me that resume the problem of communication of the film.
Another is when Alex is in the murder scene and he nows that his life is going to change and the unique person who is thinking about is his young brother.
So the film is full of critic to the society and is very beautiful filmed and also the storytelling is great. The act is just natural and very real, just like in Elephant and another detail that i love is that we almost can't see the adults in the film, i mean the parents of Alex are like out of focus in the unique scene where they appear.
As a conclusion: This film is different and unique so is highly recommendable and comparing to the other work of Gus Van Sant, for me this is in my 3 favourites with Elephant and Drugstore Cowboy.
PS: another detail that i love is when Alex' brother tell to Alex a scene from "Napoleon Dynamite", is like the magic of a child's innocence.
The film is similar to Elephant in the part that show to us the "real" life of an adolescent.
Paranoid Park follows the life of Alex, a young boy who loves skateboarding, when his life change because of a murderer.
But this film is not only about a murder and those kind of stuff, is about real life; show to us a world where adults don't know nothing about their own child's and for me that is very real.
In the case of the main character, Alex, his parents are going to divorce and he spend his life with his friend Jared and his girl Jennifer. It looks that Alex have a good communication with his mom but when he need that communication, there's a phrase that resume all: is like "write the letter to a person who you can trust, not to your parents of your teachers, write it to me". A phrase like that is said to Alex by another friend and for me that resume the problem of communication of the film.
Another is when Alex is in the murder scene and he nows that his life is going to change and the unique person who is thinking about is his young brother.
So the film is full of critic to the society and is very beautiful filmed and also the storytelling is great. The act is just natural and very real, just like in Elephant and another detail that i love is that we almost can't see the adults in the film, i mean the parents of Alex are like out of focus in the unique scene where they appear.
As a conclusion: This film is different and unique so is highly recommendable and comparing to the other work of Gus Van Sant, for me this is in my 3 favourites with Elephant and Drugstore Cowboy.
PS: another detail that i love is when Alex' brother tell to Alex a scene from "Napoleon Dynamite", is like the magic of a child's innocence.