Thursday, January 1, 2009

Paranoid Park

By my count, this is the fifth in an occasional series by Gus Van Sant exploring the ways people walk. This time, we watch a young sk8ter boy walk through the city of Portland. Van Sant also uses a level of slow motion not seen since "The Passion of the Christ." There's a backstory of skating culture and a murdered security guard, but its secondary to the walking. And for a 90-minute film, it felt to me like it was twice as long.

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