Elephant
Inspired by the Columbine High School massacre, Gus Van Sant takes a dreamily unconventional approach to an explosive subject. Survivors of such high school slayings often recount the event as standing outside time or logic: It was like a dream, like time stood still. That’s exactly what the camerawork here captures. Gracefully orchestrated travelling shots drop us in and out of a seemingly routine high school day: gym class, conversations about after-school plans, lunchtime in the cafeteria, pockets of student cliques… The camera glides through hallways and around students like a hunter tracking its prey. And the randomness of what it shoots cleverly mirrors the arbitrariness and senselessness of the shocking violence to come.
– Dennis Sabourin
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Directed by:
Gus Van Sant
Running Time:
82 Starring:
Alex Frost, Eric Deulen, John Robinson, Carrie Finklea, Nicole George, Brittany Mountain
Screenplay by:
Gus Van Sant