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terrya Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-22-04 06:34 AM
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Has anyone see Gus Van Sant's film "Elephant?"
I rented it last night...it was a fictionalized account of Columbine.

A brilliant, powerful, film. Van Sant does come up with near genius from time to time. "Elephant" belongs in that category.
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jonnyblitz Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-22-04 06:39 AM
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1. I went to a theater to see it.
It was intense, disturbing, and short. I would own the dvd. It won the palm d'or award at Cannes in 2003.
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iconoclastic cat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-22-04 06:41 AM
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2. Yeah, it was fantastic.
I saw it with someone who has experience as an employee in one of those huge suburban high schools, and she said that the sense of isolation and detachment in the movie is frighteningly realistic.
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jonnyblitz Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-22-04 06:44 AM
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3. that is what was so disturbing about the movie
the whole tone of the movie never changed. It had a non-chalant, ho-hum ambience, no matter what was going on.
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iconoclastic cat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-22-04 06:56 AM
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4. According to my friend,
that whole atmosphere is dead on.
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Lisa Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-22-04 02:01 PM
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5. the scene between John and his dad at the beginning was heartbreaking
A high school friend of mine had an alcoholic parent, and the amount of covering and all-out lying that he had to do to conceal this made him a lot older than his years.
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sundog Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-22-04 02:04 PM
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6. no, but for some strange reason his "My Own Private Idaho" hasn't...
been realeased on DVD -- great movie, I already complained to New Line to no avail :shrug:
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mitchum Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-22-04 02:40 PM
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7. I thought it was just an excuse for Gus to audition a bunch of...
nubile young men
I found it exploitative and pretentious, but I have hated all of his films with the exception of "To Die For"
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