i really want to like this film and especially after all the buzz i would hear revolve around it . but and sadly and it just do not work for me . paranoid park suffers from the same delusion lose in translation do if you use very little dialogue and be heavy on the slow motion close ups and concentrate on piece of fabric in the setting and then your story will magically come across a deep and thoughtful . much of the plot line and if you can find a plot and of this film be contrive . i wasn not impress with the write it all down confessional be the way the protagonist deal with the accident so what be we suppose to believe . he grow up happily ever after and write a book about his experience and thus be vindicate for that horrific incident . what be and i suspect and suppose to be a film that evoke empathy for a young man who be directionless and face with an impossible moral quandary and instead create a portrait of a future sociopathic personality . he have no connection to anyone around him and and by the end of the film have no real sense of what be right or wrong . he have no direction at home and feel nothing for his friend . what we have be a portrait of a non person and a spirit that merely coast through life a he weave his way along on his skateboard . i do not feel for him at all and and honestly i wish he would be catch . the entire film centre not necessarily on his feeling of guilt and but on how he be go to avoid punishment and or or accountability for a bad decision . he not only get away with it and he find a way to subtly rationalise it . quite a frightening and negative message and the suggestion be that so many of our youth be so disconnect from right and twrong that they simply make up the rule a they go along and serve themselves for good or ill. i find it an insulting treatsie on today youth and and the pretentious arrogance of the film maker drip thick with every plodding and overthought step and shift eye . ( he do murder the guard and but if you blink your eye you miss it . whether it be an act of mercy or not be hard to say it could be he be so mortified he lash out with his skateboard . when he run to the security guard car and one of the wheel of his skateboard be stain with blood . ) .