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  • Full review by
    AUS critic Rank: Staff Sergeant
    on 6th Sep 2004


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    Good Points: Winner of the Palme d'Or and Best Director prizes at the 2003 Cannes Film Festival.

    General comments: Elephant, the elegant and unsettling movie from Gus Van Sant (My Own Private Idaho, Good Will Hunting), depicts students at a high school before and during a harrowing, Columbine-style shooting. The movie follows one young boy who takes over the wheel from his drunken dad while returning from lunch, then loops back in time and follows another student who crosses paths with the first, then loops back and follows another -- all captured in long, unedited tracking shots that are serene and unhurried, even when two boys in camouflage gear, carrying heavy bags, arrive at the school and begin shooting. Elephant doesn't attempt to explain their behavior; it simply places the audience back in the brief yet interminable window of adolescence, when life is trivial and painfully important at the same time. Your reaction to Elephant will depend as much on your life experiences as anything in the movie itself. It's a shallow film, it doesn't attempt to explain, or delve further into the reasons behind the student shooting, it's like a half-blotched job of 'Bowling for Columbine'. Elephant will raise relevent questions, but doesn't, in any attempt, even skim the answers.
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    MOON UK Rank: Lance Corporal
    on 5th Sep 2004


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    Elephant - MMM.......This is probably the worst film I have ever seen. The director {Gus Van Sant} has tried to make a Quentin Tarantino film... but missed by a mile. The film features long drawn out shots of kids walking down Corridors. THAT'S IT!........Yeah that's the whole film. Then in the last 20 mins a story.
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