
The teenager and skateboarder Alex is interviewed by Detective Richard Lu that is investigating the death of a security guard in the rail yards severed by a train who was apparently hit by a skate board. While dealing with the separation process of his parents and the sexual heat of his virgin girlfriend Jennifer, Alex writes his last experiences in Paranoid Park with his new acquaintances and how the guard was killed, trying to relieve his feeling of guilty from his conscien... (Full plot summary below)
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The teenager and skateboarder Alex is interviewed by Detective Richard Lu that is investigating the death of a security guard in the rail yards severed by a train who was apparently hit by a skate board. While dealing with the separation process of his parents and the sexual heat of his virgin girlfriend Jennifer, Alex writes his last experiences in Paranoid Park with his new acquaintances and how the guard was killed, trying to relieve his feeling of guilty from his conscience.
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| San Francisco ChronicleDavid WiegandAppropriately structured like a ride on skateboard: It swoops back and forth in time, hovers in midair, twists back on itself over and over again, then rolls into silence. |
| Boxoffice MagazineRichard MoweVan Sant's belief that all teenagers at that age are 'acting to a certain extent' lends the film its edge of raw authenticity. |
| Village VoiceJ. HobermanThe pleasing circularity of Gus Van Sant's masterful Paranoid Park is not only a function of the film's narrative structure but reflects the arc of its maker's career. Few directors have revisited their earliest concerns with such vigor. |
| ViewLondonMatthew TurnerBeautifully shot, superbly acted and thoroughly engaging, this is quite simply Gus Van Sant's masterpiece. |
| Combustible CelluloidJeffrey M. AndersonA vivid, powerful attempt to get close to one boy's tortured soul. |
| LarsenOnFilmJosh LarsenVan Sant's teens are angels slowly sullied by a demonic world. |
| Chicago Sun-TimesJim EmersonParanoid Park is graced with those peculiar Van Sant touches of discovery and absurdity, delightful because they're at once so right and so inscrutable. |
| Wall Street JournalJoe MorgensternIt's a new and inspired vision of a familiar state of being -- teenage anomie amidst the crumbling wreckage of a middle-class American family. In the space of 78 minutes, Mr. Van Sant and his cinematographer, the peerless Christopher Doyle, manage to suffuse that state with haunting sadness, ubiquitous danger, pulsing power and flickers of hope. |
| Dallas Morning NewsChris VognarIt's always exciting when a film that plays with cinematic language can squeeze in among the flotsam and jetsam of repetitive mediocrity. |
| St. Paul Pioneer PressChris Hewitt[The narrative is] as speedy and graceful as the skateboarders it lingers over in Paranoid Park, where their daredevil moves are often shot in dreamily beautiful slow motion. |