Word: elephantitis
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In Elephant, director Gus Van Sant depicts what most Americans only imagined in the days after the Columbine High School killings of April 1999: that same violence transported to their own local high school.
In staging the tragedy at a fictional high school in his own city of Portland, Ore., Van Sant avoids this type of oversimplification, making what is surely one of the most thoughtful and inquisitive films of the year. Focusing on twelve students on the day of the shooting, Elephant patiently...
The film thus moves toward its bloody climax with exactly the type of credibility its subject demands, and the closing sequences build skillfully on what has come before. Though Elephant can seem a little heavy-handed in places—three girls plan a shopping trip over lunch and then...
Whatever happened to taking responsibility for our own social lives, to not trusting anyone over 35, to toga parties and dead horses in the dean’s office. It’s a bit like the proverbial elephant trunk under the circus tent, now that the council has started...
The best pop songs are just different enough to surprise without requiring any attention to detail. Remember Coldplay’s “Yellow”? Or Missy Elliott’s “Work It” with the elephant noise? These are the gems that make...