Starring:
Gabe Nevins, Daniel Liu, Taylor Momsen, Jake Miller, Lauren
McKin…
Review:
In a multiplex front-loaded with cheap jolts (Vantage
Point) and cheaper jokes (how psyched are you to see
College Road Trip?), filmmaker Gus Van Sant gives us a
haunting tone poem laced with violent death. The setting is
Portland, Oregon, where Van Sant lives and where Paranoid Park
attracts the city’s riskier skateboarders. Enter Alex, a teen
boarder played with bruised innocence, and a face with dew still on
it, by Gabe Nevins. At the park, Alex skates in a hypnotic, vaguely
homoerotic haze over issues such as his parents’ impending divorce
and a virgin girlfriend (Taylor Momsen) he can barely rouse himself
to screw.
One night, while riding a freight train near the park, Alex
inadvertently causes the death of a security guard, whose body is
cut in half on the tracks. A detective (a…

Rating: 3 Stars