Pusan Film Festival
PUSAN FILM FESTIVAL
I won't bore you with a review, someone has already written a better one I'm sure. All I'll say is you'd be doing yourself a favor if you check out Paranoid Park first chance you get. I don't want to sound presumptuous, but I'm not afraid to claim it's one of his best.
Sunday we decided it wasn't worth waiting in lines all day for the chance to see a movie that we didn't even care about, so we caught the bus home.
I wasn't really sure what to expect from the film festival. But it all seemed very lackluster. Just cheap tickets to rare movies. Which is cool. I mean how often can you watch awesome foreign films in fancy theaters full of movie lovers? But I thought it would feel more like being at a film festival. I guess I wanted something to take a picture of myself in front of. And there was nothing...
* * *
I shaved. Finally. After 70 days. This young boy slowly emerged as I knifed my way through the furry growth. His face looked small and weak. His eyes large and his hair heavy. I stared at him a long time before I realized who he was.