With the moody LAST DAYS, Gus Van Sant completed the so-called "death trilogy," which included the teen mortality meditations GERRY and ELEPHANT. But it's not like he's lightening up: Van Sant's abstract, deceptively minimalistic adaptation of young-adult novelist Blake Nelson's 2006' s
Paranoid Park is a downbeat, Dostoyevskian study of crime and guilt among the disaffected skate punks of Van Sant's beloved Portland, Oregon.
"Paranoid Park" is the local nickname for the East Side Skateboard Park, the concrete basin under a Portland bridge overpass where an intimidating crowd of "gutter punks, train hoppers, skate drunks" and other "throw-away kids" ...
Released:
2008
Rated:
R
Length:
84 mins