Параноид Парк, вкино

Paranoid Park (also known sometimes as Punk Park) is a small park and fountain at the cross streets of Southwest Park Avenue and Stark Street in downtown Portland, Oregon. The park is officially known to the city as O'Bryant Square. The park may have gotten its name due to its near-exclusive frequenting by street kids and homeless people in the mid 80s to mid 90's. In the 80's Paranoid Park served as a hub for Punk activity: one of Tri-Met's (the local transit system) last bus-stops in the immediate downtown hub, Paranoid Park serves as the mid-point, connecting passengers travelling from Portland's Southeast (across the Willamette River), to the Northwest section of town. As a point of transit, one block off the City Center, but not immediately within access of storefronts and shopping centers, and owing to the fact that the Tri-Met bus shelter shields the park from immediate street-view, Paranoid Park served as a place for much illegal street activity, also a likely factor in how the park got its nick-name. In 2006 Blake Nelson published a young adult novel entitled Paranoid Park, that has been adapted into a film by director Gus Van Sant, which was released in 2007. Blake's story deals with a 16 year old skateboarder who accidentally kills a security guard at a skate park. Both the novel and the film take place in Portland, Oregon, although Blake/Van Sant's Paranoid Park is a skate park located on Portland's East Side.