Elephant

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The movie starts as a car has a hard time driving straight down the road in a residential area. We think some kid has stolen this car. Nah. It's the dad driving his son to school, and he's drunk. The teenage son must take over. So, adults give up all responsibility towards their children and mayhem can take place. The film shows one day in the life of several teenage students as they go in and out of classes. They live their student lives and we follow their steps through the corridors and doors, taking them as guides one by one, like avatars in a giant video game.

actors:

Alex Frost	as Alex
Eric Deulen	as Eric
John Robinson	as John McFarland
Elias McConnell	as Elias
Jordan Taylor	as Jordan
Carrie Finklea	as Carrie
Nicole George	as Nicole
Brittany Mountain	as Brittany
Alicia Miles	as Acadia
Kristen Hicks	as Michelle
Bennie Dixon	as Benny
Nathan Tyson	as Nathan
Timothy Bottoms	as Mr. McFarland
Matt Malloy	as Mr. Luce
Ellis Williams	as GSA Teacher

directors:
Gus Van Sant
rating:7.20

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On April 20, 1999, two boys wearing trench coats took a huge arsenal of weapons seized
with military web gear in
Columbine High School in Littleton, Colorado, and systematically killed thirteen students.
although gruesome, the incident was only one of eight high school
fatal shootings between 1997 and 1999. These traumatic events
initiated a discussion about what was wrong with the youth of the nation, an issue that is the subject of
Gus Van Sant's Elephant.

Winner of the Palme d'Or at the 2003 Cannes Film Festival, is an Elephant
brilliant and deeply affecting film that makes a valiant attempt to capture
unrest among young people Today's culture. Van Sant does not attempt to explain
Columbine or discover their underlying causes, and no revealing
epiphany. His film is a highly stylized, dreamlike tone poem that defies conventions
linear and is almost surreal in its approach. The use of flashbacks
and recurring images from different viewpoints, the film captures the
mood and tone of his adolescent world: their perceptions, their self-absorption,
and ultimately its most dark instincts.

The camera is an independent observer, and the strength of the film lies in its
acute power of observation and detail. Van Sant shows us the entire surface
rituals: the girl cheerleaders, boys playing football, the locker-lined hallways
, and academic debates, however, an ineffable feeling of loneliness pervades
. The image features impeccable by a group of professionals not
Portland, Oregon. Each character is presented separately
and we see them pass on their activities to
seemingly ordinary school day. The Steadicam tracking camera follows them as
walk across the barren halls that seem endless. The school appears
lifeless - a place where one feels a desperate sense of loss.

We see John (John Robinson), a blond surfer hair type, take over the
driving his father who has had too much to drink and then get to the task
an administrator for being late for school. Eli (Elias McConnell)
a photographer who asks colleagues, including John, to pose for photographs.
football player Jordan (Jordan Taylor) meets his girlfriend Carrie (Carrie Finklea
) for lunch. Three friends Nicole (Nicole George), Brittany (Brittany Mountain
), and Acadia (Alicia Miles) gossip and argue about who is whose
best friend. Michelle (Kristen Hicks) refuses to wear shorts,
was warned by her teacher, and then goes to work at the library. The paths of these students
crisscross throughout the movie and each has their own destiny to fulfill
when violence erupts.

The main protagonists, Alex (Alex Frost) and Eric (Eric Deulen) are based on
after Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold of Columbine. When Alex first meet,
is being rejected by their fellow students, called names and Pelt
spitballs in science class. Alex is more outgoing and creative, Eric
more passive, but their personalities complement each other. Alex and Eric
wait at home until a strange package arrived in the mail, while Alex
plays Beethoven's "Fur Elise" on the piano. When they return to school, are
dressed in combat gear and ready to kill.

Rather than give us pat answers, Van Sant basa
its focus on the elusiveness of truth, and our insatiable desire to know more. The images
camerawork and are almost painfully beautiful, while the disconnected deliberately withheld
narrative closure. Over all this, the pace is
superb, slowly creating the almost unbearable tension. When it is finally released
, the explosion hit him with a terrifying power that is so unforgettable as
is cooling.


This film is a fictional story, but it is essentially a tally of
of Columbine High slaughter. Only extends perhaps an hour's time, but coves
the views of a lot of people, victims to bystanders to
murderers.

It is a piece especially important because of its style of storytelling. Van Sant has
the camera follows a character at a time, the day of the murders
, and let the story tell. This is what can be more neutral
get, really. Van Sant does not use foreshadowing, not any framework
character as an archetype, which does not play ominous music, and
dialogue is almost as inane and high school-ish as you can get very realistic
actually. No jokes, and
relatively few scenes designed for maximum shock effect. That is the whole point: the situation was a high school
normal day, and the very events, regardless of how you paint them
, should be as shocking as anything. Any time you're
asking, "How can this possibly lead to slaughter? All these are normal
children ", which faithfully recreates the tone of the morning until the main
unexpected events in real life.

If you're looking for a conventional film with a clear beginning, middle,
end, good and bad guys, and demonized heroism glorified violence, not
as this movie is not a fact especially for television, is closest to an art film
.

Some people have expressed their anger in the film, accusing it of some kind of liberal
Michael Moore against 2 nd amendment sympathies or machine
preaching. Having seen that I can not understand what you're talking about
. My suspicion is that we are seeing what they want to see.
And that leads me to wonder what a good movie about Columbine look like,
their views. For me, this is it.

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