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Elephant
The preview was fantastic: Eerie and incredibly enticing. Unfortunately, the entire film is like a prolonged version of the preview. When reading articles in the paper on school masacres like Columbine, I am shocked. After seeing the film, I am not especially shocked or moved or anything at all. The T-shirts on sale at the cinema looked cool though! I don't think the film has a point, and this is probably Gus Van Sant's intention, but we did pay good money for the ticket and so demand, if not a point, a "no point". But if the "no point" was that the reasons for masacres like this are inexplicable, I knew this already. On the other hand it could be seen as a very bleak and pessimistic view of life, in that all the characters, " good" and "bad", mean absolutely nothing to us: We hardly get to know any of the characters. No-one says anything of importance and no-one seems to have any real emotional contact with anyone else. Maybe that's the idea.....it's kinda growing on me now. In a world where no-one has any feelings for anyone else, what would stop us from shooting everyone else?
posted by PA on Sunday, April 11, 2004
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