Paranoid Park (film)
Paranoid Park is a 2007 AmericanFrench drama film written and directed by Gus Van Sant. The film is based on the novel of the same name by Blake Nelson and takes place in Portland, Oregon. It stars Gabe Nevins as a teenage skateboarder who accidentally kills a security guard.
Alex Gabe Nevins, a 16yearold skateboarder, rides a freight train clandestinely with a man named Scratch Scott Patrick Green whom he has just met at the Eastside Skatepark, known as Paranoid Park. While the train is moving a security guard John Burrowes notices the pair, chases after them, and tries to get them off by hitting Scratch with his flashlight. During the melee, Alex hits him with his skateboard and the guard, losing balance, falls onto another track into the path of an oncoming freight train which cuts him in half. Alex tries to destroy some of the evidence. For example, he throws his skateboard into the Willamette River from the Steel Bridge, and when he arrives at his friend Jareds Jake Miller house, he showers and disposes of the clothes he had been wearing.Alex is later questioned at school by Detective Richard Lu Daniel Liu, as are several other students who had been skateboarding on the night in question. It is revealed that the police have recovered Alexs skateboard, though they have not traced it back to him, and have identified DNA evidence which places the skateboard at the scene of the security guards death. ........
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