Elephant
Elephant (2003)
Director: Gus Van Sant
Cast: Alex Frost, Eric LAUSD, John Robinson, Elias McConnell
Gus Van Sant has been forged over the years earned a reputation for competent director, always in-between the author of more independent films and their flirtations with the industry, Van Sant holds a handful of films sincere, hard and compromised.
The theme of adolescence, already addressed in films such as "Drugstore Cowboy" or "Good Will Hunting" is the central theme of Elephant, portrayed a teenage faithfully by his own players (the young players are not professionals) in a tough tape I would have to do to reflect more than one.
The film is based on the events of Columbine school in Littleton in 1999, but clarifies that the movie is fictional and has no real connection with these events, the issue of weapons in the United States and was superbly tackled by Michael Moore in " Bowling for Columbine "albeit in a more general way, more analytical, Elephant is limited to describe a day at an institute in the U.S., a day that looks like a Christian until he discovers that it is not, until the exploits tragedy.
The construction of the film is rather peculiar, a camera follows each character while continuing to perform their usual tasks, so we see as Eli takes photos to their peers, or John arriving late to class or Nate after his training, little by little we enter into the routine of an institute anyone, in any one city, like a student anymore.
Shows a number of situations that occur simultaneously and thus there are repeated scenes from different angles that serve as a liaison to the viewer. The realization is completely aseptic, Van Sant never makes value judgments or any kind of valuation, the talks are the only ones that occur between the students themselves, quite casual talks and insubstantial, even in the most dramatic moments.
The tension is rising as movie passes, the feeling that something terrible will happen to be taken over the viewer, gradually showing horrific details, details, even macabre integrated with complete naturalness among young people until the tragedy and is inevitable.
The tape is first and foremost a serious wake-up call to American society about the kind of young people who are forming, some young people without values, without beliefs, without scruples, selfish and cruel, is also a fierce critique of the educational system, committed to allocating roles and categories to create pockets of marginalized young people from a very early age.
A country where anyone can buy a gun is already a dangerous place, where young people also have no compunction in using the thing becomes a time bomb ready to explode.
Elephant is a movie tough, difficult, well-raised and well done, a good display of committed cinema and a happy return to the Van Sant film more independent.
We think a very good movie but very slow, sadistic and a strong movie, where we see a common day from different points of view ending in a tragedy
I think that pace is so slow that the film is what makes the unlink is so brutal and so shocking. Definitely not a movie is easy to see, but very interesting if it makes the effort.
Incidentally, the last of Van Sant, "Last Days", the biography of Kurt Kobain are making soup at all sites, a pity because the tape promised, still have to wait to see it to appreciate.
NO understand the title of the movie ""
In any case, I think it also serves to value life. Any time you go and do not you realize. No matter how you are, or you do.
ERA DEMAÇI SLOW START TO THE FILM, THE CHARACTERS DO NOT SPEAK ALMOST, BUT THE FILM SHOWS YOU WHAT HAPPENS DAY IN A SETTING ANY DAY, BUT NO ONE KNOWS WHAT WILL HAPPEN Q IN ANY ONE DAY SO TE DA LA VIDA AND SURPRISES TRAGEDY AS YOU WHEN YOU LEAST EXPECT. GOOD BUT THE FILM IS THIS A MUCH VIOLENCE AND REALITY IN THE PAST AND FEED Q THESE PEOPLE WHO ARE VIOLENT Komo "ALEX AND ERICK" X IS THAT are simply POPULAR HEAD OF THE EVIL Kaga KABEZA THE PEOPLE AND MUCH TO COME TO THAT END VIOLENCE.
Q SAY GOOD ONLY IN THIS LIFE FULL OF TESTS AND TAI tragedy, HAPPINESS ... .. AND ALL THE STRANGE KOSAS Q TE PUEDADN PASAR.
ELEPHANT SHOWS THAT YOU AGREED TO BE AN ELEPHANT brutal SOCIETY.
It seems to me a very good movie, I go to high school, and we recommended this movie, and the rent was not in vain, I think q besides the shit show that youth are the U.S., also shows the high voltage violence of the games virtual q and discrimination occurs in society, in terms of the title, I think it is q q How the shit happens in that school system errors, are as remarkable as an elephant.
ambinte normal movie, no show probelmas, nothing happens, it gives suño, does not catch, but the last 10 minutes a reality show that if that happened and the world can not hide
I wanted to ask please explain the meaning of the book.
I meant the movie
I will try to explain to you, sir burns.
During every day of your life you pick up and you see the television about 4 hours per day (series, movies, cartoons, news ...), then you go to school (classes that do not understand, cruel classmates, fights in the yard ...) at home or do you fight with the neighbor or playing the PlayStation (Tekken, Vice City ...), the most that you read a Batman comic, and finally you go to your parents having seen only a couple of hours and discussed ( That if they live together).
In this dynamic daily so close and so "normal" just have to make a balance between love-hate, game-destruction, imagination-violence and all that were part of that routine towards where it leads us? What we usually see and desensitized? If a child sees a murder or fights per day (pulling it low) and nothing of love, affection or attention on the other hand, you tell me what they learned, what you see normal, in what comes to become ...
It is clear that there is something in the system that fails and the only thing the movie is trying to capture the attention of a potential public about it through the narration (very original way, by the way) of a real event, so put your grain of sand to sensitize the world we live in that something is wrong.
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is a hell of tape or if I want to take the time to explain that this is going to most commentators: to think, analyze all the thematic and not be fooled by poquerias like this. I do not agree with what they say about a movie that is strong, there is nothing stronger, to see good films irreversible, and you know that and many more. bye crowd