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Paranoid Park [2007]
from Tartan Video
starring Jake Miller, Lauren McKinney, Taylor Momsen, Gabe Nevins, Scott Green
directed by Gus Van Sant

Features:

• PAL

Customer Reviews:

• Avg. Customer Rating: 3.0 / 5.0

• Yawn
  This film is just dire.
  Not only is it painfully slow, disjointed and lacking in any substance of any sort at all, it is ultimately pointless.
  The story in short? A teenager accidently causes the death of a security guard and then spends the rest of the film discombobulated by his own actions. He finally comes to terms with the "horror" of the death by writing a cathartic letter to a friend which he then symbolically burns.
  If only life was that easy!
  The director has attempted to make... more info

• American Hoodies
  I found this DVD almost lifeless. It's central character had as much charisma as potato and actually looked like a pale version of a King Edwards.
  The boy had just killed a man (accidentally) and showed no emotion what so ever apart from one incident when he was sick after seeing a police picture of the bisected body of the victim.
  Actually, I take it all back, he played an excellent part of a teenage hoodie ...... miserable, ugly, and lifeless.

• Bad Acting But Its Still A Good Film
  I went to the cinema to see Paranoid Park at the on a whim after I had been refused a ticket to see Hostel Part 2, I didn't have a clue what it was about. So I sat down in the cinema chair not sure what to expect.
  Paranoid Park is about a sullen teenage boy who is racked by guilt as a result of accidentally killing someone.
  As far as the acting is concerned its not good at all, I don't see the star of the show (Gabe Nevins) getting a decent role again unless the very laid back Gus Van Sant... more info

• Regrets, Regrets.
  Y'know what I regret?
  I regret believing that this was actually going to be a decent movie, or that Van Sant had taken his recent style and 'notched it up'. I loved Elephant, Last Days and had a lingering crush on some of his other films.
  I remembered Gerry, remembered how I felt it was one long drawn out joke and Van Sant must've been making a pastiche of his own work in an attempt to play with the critics. So, I cast Gerry out of my mind and warmly remembered the others, felt a rush of... more info

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