Director: Gus Van Sant
Note: Minor Spoilers Ahead
What's most interesting to me about Paranoid Park is that it easily could have been a forgettable genre movie. It's not going to be the sequel to Gleaming The Cube, but there's the skateboard element, the unfortunate circumstances element, the 'will he or won't he' element. The script would need some touching up - everyone in this movie actually talks like a teenager, which makes them awkward and mumbly.
Still, Van Sant tells the story all out of order, he leaves out many elements that another film would include, and a possible climax happens near the beginning of the film. I'm not sure if I would be so forgiving towards another director for doing this, but the characters are the focus regardless.
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