A teenage skateboarder becomes suspected of being connected with a security guard who suffered a brutal death in a skate park called "Paranoid Park".
Direction
Van Sant's fragmented memory structure mirrors teenage denial.
Cinematography
16mm grain and Super 8 skate footage = visual poetry.
Acting
Non-actor Gabe Nevins's blankness is devastatingly perfect.
Director
Gus Van Sant
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