Elephant:
See Elephant. Now. Gus Van Sant’s fictional retelling of a high school shooting (structured like Columbine but not a faithful adaptation) offers no insight into why these tragedies happen but instead says that the sickness in our soul is how ordinary they are. It’s a moody, hypnotic, enormously disturbing day at the cinema but worth every minute.
P.S. Anyone know why the film is called Elephant?
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I haven’t seen it, but my first thought was that it’s a reference to “ignoring the elephant in the room.” What do you think?
I haven’t seen it, but my first thought was that it’s a reference to “ignoring the elephant in the room.” What do you think?
That was my thought too.
That was my thought too.
Yup, though there’s more of a history to it than just the saying:
“The title comes from Alan Clarke’s 1989 BBC short ‘Elephant,’ which is about school violence in Northern Ireland; Clarke is alluding to the saying that such a problem is as easy to ignore as an elephant in a living room”
[http://www.bostonphoenix.com/boston/movies/trailers/documents/03314495.asp%5D
Yup, though there’s more of a history to it than just the saying:
“The title comes from Alan Clarke’s 1989 BBC short ‘Elephant,’ which is about school violence in Northern Ireland; Clarke is alluding to the saying that such a problem is as easy to ignore as an elephant in a living room”
[http://www.bostonphoenix.com/boston/movies/trailers/documents/03314495.asp%5D
And this has what to do with “Elephant?”
And this has what to do with “Elephant?”
I think that’s weblog ‘spam’.
I think that’s weblog ‘spam’.
And now it’s gone.
And now it’s gone.