Monday, March 16, 2009

Slow Moving Movie, Paranoid Park!


The Movie: Paranoid Park!

What I liked: I enjoyed the acting of Gabe Nevins. Very natural and low keyed.
What I disliked: Critics have many nice things to say about Paranoid Park: "...the result is a work of breathtakingly personal cinema--intimate, beautiful, and moving..." And another says: "It is a modestly scaled triumph without a false or wasted moment."

For me, however, the movie was slow and boring. I hate it when directors spend so much time walking behind an actor, or the camera stays focused on the actor's face for what seems an eternity. No action! No dialog! Just walking along behind or fixed on the actor's face while he does nothing.

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