Elephant
20037.0movie
Several ordinary high school students go through their daily routine as two others prepare for something more malevolent.
Several ordinary high school students go through their daily routine as two others prepare for something more malevolent.
October 24, 2003. Don’t write off Gus Van Sant’s Elephant as arty jerk-off cinema just because it won the top film and directing prizes at the 2003 Cannes snobfest. Elephant, which details a high school shooting spree modeled on Columbine…
It mutated into something more abstract and more personal. Filmed in long, languorous travelling shots (like Van Sant's Gerry , it's influenced by Béla Tarr, as well as the Alan Clarke film about sectarian murders from which the director…
Van Sant sidesteps all the conventional modes of movie behavior and simply shows us sad, sudden death without purpose. ... Gus Van Sant‘s “Elephant” is a record of a day at a high school like Columbine, on the day of a massacre much like…
