Honestly, I much prefer the earlier videos (1-6) because there was tension, build-up as we followed an assortment of all types, took in the entire school layout and overlapping events. Unfortunately the ending fell short for me. I'm glad I saw this but Elias (the photographer) and John (blonde with the drunk father) may have been better suited as our main protagonists. In fact I thought they were in the beginning. Maybe that was Van Sant's little trick on Elephant's viewers. It can be anyone...
@xpalacioss It's not supopsed to be a stimulating and entertaining action movie, its a depiction of how within a short period of time many people can be affected and a represenation of the troubles facing youth today.
I got some problems with this movie first off take out the DAMN LONG ASS AWKWARD WALKING SCENES!!! so that takes an hour away.... bad acting, really random gay shower scene and you cant buy gun off the internet like they did. other wise it would be good
Honestly, how da fuck did this win at Cannes? Those elite fucks are suckers for anything tragic, regardless of shitty direction, acting, and cinematography.
This movie lacks music,but then there's that really creepy ass shit playing when Alex runs around the building. Terrible mistake to watch this on my iPhone in a new jersey suburb on a Monday night at 1:22 in the morning
Okay, to explain: the kid actors in the movie are purposefully "non-professional". They chose their own clothing and kept their original names for the characters they play. It was a directing choice for such inexperienced actors to be in a movie like this, so naturally the acting's gonna suck for Hollywood standards. But this isn't a Hollywood movie. It's meant to capture high school life as realistically as possible, to prepare for the very real tragedy of a high school shooting.
Man, if I was hired to help out with this movie, I wouldn't even go. It's too cheap and horrible acting. Call me up when Spielberg, Scorcese, or Eastwood are directing.
@pinkthunderwonder The wtf was my general reaction to the ending, mainly him shooting his best friend out of nowhere. I liked the entire movie but like you, was confused. Hence, "WHAT. THE. FUCK."
Thats such a horrible movie in every way, 1/10 just cause he ending was half decent, all the movie is is following people and backs of people. Didn't even show why other than stuff thrown at alex, why he did it. And if they were basing this on columbine they failed big time.
im sure they had their good reasons for it, but having them kill themselves at the end would have been a better ending and would have had more emotion. but overall i think this is a really good movie. the actors they chose werent THE best at acting, but for me it added to the realty of it. very good movie
@lumpymoose200 I meant to say that it IS loosely based. It's not supposed to be accurate or anything like that. For legal reasons and personal reasons,a "real" movie based on Colombine wouldn't be made.
WTF? In real life they killed themselves in the library, and they started at the west entrance out front? Good movie, captures the emotion of these kids, but terribley inacurate.
I am so confused with this movie? Like why did he shoot his lover? Why didn't police come? Why did the people in the background are like "Oh there is a serial killer right behind me I should take my sweet ass time going to the exit to save my life." Why didn't anyone see the big ass bags and in milatary clothes? Why did that nigger walking toward the gunshots? "Oh I am going to be a hero!" Lastley why didn't any of the victems rush the gun men and beat the shit out of them? Horrible movie...
Because, this isn't a game you idiot. Smart people wouldn't just bum rush two guys that are armed to the teeth. Once I hear gun shots being fired, I turn the other way and RUN. Unless I have a gun, than I'll stay and fight.
@ThePlacardman No, You must have mis-understood my comment. Like at the end if someone is pointing a gun to your face and is about to kill you what do you do? Die like a dumbass, or Die trying to live? I would rush him and rip his eyes from his face if I was about to die. At least I wouldn't die without a fight.
The only reason for that would be that the director, Gus Van Sant didn't get actors to play these roles, but simply ordinary school kids. There was no script, no plan. They knew what it was leading up to, that was all - much else was improvised. And that's the beauty of the film. So, I think the "acting" isn't really acting at all.
I thought the most interesting thing about this movie was the fact that no one in the movie had prior acting experience, almost all of them even used their real names. The way the camera followed everyone around during the same school day and you saw how their lives crossed paths at different points. Plus the flat out truth of the movie is scary. People really are that blind in life
He even passes by dead bodies in the hallway. Does that light a fire under his butt?!? Nope. He still can't put two and two together and see any danger. Is he planning to do something heroice (fight rather than flight)? Nyet. He makes himself a sitting duck approaching the shooter,with no protection. Surprise! He gets killed. As silly as the father and son who give up trying to warn the school and stupidly stare at the school, bonding. Feel sorry for an actor with such a stupid role.
Hard to think of a more ridiculous story line that what the script has the Black athlete doing as a school massacre going on all around him. Screaming and gun shots loud enough for the entire study body to empty the halls. What does he do. Wonder aimlessly as if he cannot process that something bad is happening. He has every chance in the world to escape, especially when he helps the girl out the window. What does he do then? He returns to aimlessly wander, almost begging to be shot. He
Hard to think of a more ridiculous story line that what the script has the Black athlete doing as a school massacre going on all around him. Screaming and gun shots loud enough for the entire study body to empty the halls. What does he do. Wonder aimlessly as if he cannot process that something bad is happening. He has every chance in the world to escape, especially when he helps the girl out the window. What does he do then? He returns to aimlessly wander, almost begging to be shot.
with the exception of coyote7272 and the city monster among others, most of you guys are ignorant a-holes who treat everything as a joke even something as tragic as a school shooting. would you laugh looking through the barrel of the gun?
@thalaxia nope not spoiled and i know what it's like to have a death in the family. oh and it's a movie buddy the characters aren't real and i can distinguish reality from fantasy. I was picked on douche bags like this back when i was in grade school and a little bit of high school. This one ashole who was on the football team thought he was hot shit and always picked on me. So think before you reply to a comment that's three weeks old ; -)
It was unique though, I've never seen a similar movie like this, with the stalker-cam following around, shadowing varieties of people for an everyday high school life, while it did portray a good story, through means of bringing the viewer in depth to ordinary lives and comparing them to the hidden horrors that awaited these students, and why they couldn't react to the "elephant" in the room when the two kids arrived with their plans. I do agree that all that, could have been better portrayed.
This movie was so poorly made. Like other people have commented the concept was good but I probably could have made a better movie back when I was in high school. There are soooo many things I could point out in this film that are just straight up stupid but I'm sure plenty of viewers have already pointed most of them out.
Scale of 1 to 10, I'd give it a 5.The last part is laughable. No high school food service program has hanging sides of beef. If it wasn't for government meat, they'd have little or none. I expected more out of Gus Van Sant. Big disappointment. That this movie received an award at Cannes is evidence that alot of "film experts" have a hard time getting their heads out of their collective asses.
I can understand why people don't like the movie, but I think its everyday-ness and all the walking, people doing normal things...brings out the cruelty a lot better. By highlighting the unspectacular and innocent actions on the one side, the massacre on the other becomes even more pointless. I love this movie, it's very smart.
but yea i mean i feel that we can label, which this movie shows: jock, popular kids, loser kid, nerdy girl..but in the end we're all just humans searching for joy in a world that is full of insecurity and labels. Even the kid who kills all those students was motivated out of sadness, despair. it's like there's no such thing as pure evilness. just a mess of the mind and heart, with the tangled rope of popular culture and the need to be loved
i hate when people who dont get it, post comments about it. if you dont understand the quality and intensity and meaning behind the film, dont fucking talk about it.
Although not the best movie ever made, I must say the scenes where you can see a previous scene in the background of the current one are a fantastic idea. Really gives the film a ominous tone and creates tension, because you know whats about to take place.
... this would have been better as a book, not a visual medium. But, as a book the writer would have been forced to really emphasize the characters and not just brush over them nonchalantly with day-to-day events that do not have any real bearing on WHO those characters are as people. I'd recommend Robert McKee's STORY as a primer.
@bartelby123 I couldn't disagree more. I'm not looking at this movie expecting to see big hollywood-style explosions and crazy effects. I'm looking at character development in a "character-driven" story. None of these characters change in any way. The plot is literally a sequence of events with no emotional grab to the main character (except for the library chick). Please re-read my other posts as you clearly misunderstood me. Looking at this as a "commercial" piece that HBO invested in,
But, for a character -driven story, none of the characters experience any true development. Also, the writer missed many opportunities to maximize on emotionally connecting the characters to the audience. Poorly done.
@J9Naimoli I guess what you say is true if you look at it on a very superficial level. True, It's not spoon-fed to the audience and it's certainly not executed (no pun) in a traditional,dramatic, in-your-face fashion that audiences have come to expect from their films...but this film definitely succeeds in presenting this subject matter and how peoples lives are affected by it in a very subtle manner that definitely resonates for those that are in tune with what the director is communicating.
This was probably one of the worst movies I've ever seen. The subject matter is the ONLY thing that held my attention to the end - and just barely. The acting is poor at best, the "quiet" scenes are far too long, and the writing is just bad. There was no actual character arc. The characters did not change in any way. Its like I was watching a really bad series of events that just barely held together with minute amounts of substance. The character set-up was OK. But, for a character-driv
even though the shootout's disturbing, i take alex (the kid in black) a little less seriously. he walks around with the same face he has the whole movie. when i heard this film was about a school shooting, i expected the killers to be running around with dark and furious faces.
@hsubxsarah everything is exactly the same, come on. Well, the personalities are different, but everything else is exactly the same or at least a very well done copy of the actual shooting.
@aapinator Not exactly... like the first people that were killed weren't in the school, they were outside, and the two boys both shot them selves in the library, and the principal didn't die, although there are lots of similarities there are alot of differences that is why i think this movie was only inspired by it...
so why was it called elephant?
theeuprise 1 day ago
Honestly, I much prefer the earlier videos (1-6) because there was tension, build-up as we followed an assortment of all types, took in the entire school layout and overlapping events. Unfortunately the ending fell short for me. I'm glad I saw this but Elias (the photographer) and John (blonde with the drunk father) may have been better suited as our main protagonists. In fact I thought they were in the beginning. Maybe that was Van Sant's little trick on Elephant's viewers. It can be anyone...
Silverpsycho78 2 days ago
Is this supposed to be based on the columbine shooting because both of the shooters commit suicide -.-
Misfit559 3 days ago
"I shot the principal and some other people and" BAM
I laughed so hard, I'm probably going to hell xD
sassygirlXoX 3 days ago 2
This isn't based on Columbine, just parts.
mainlyy 5 days ago
@mainlyy What do you mean just parts? They've even got it down to the style of the high school.
SimsManiacDemented 2 days ago
Shoot them skanks
MARTYRxDEFILED 6 days ago
poor benny... you almost walked long enough for us to care about you
SuperDawgE 1 week ago 8
@SuperDawgE You pulled the words right out of my head
MrBrokenedition 1 week ago
This is so inaccurate I do not even know where to begin criticizing this...
woodster012 1 week ago
Wow. That was...really interesting. I guess it's gotta be your kind of film...
AlphaWeet 1 week ago
This movie sucked. Go watch Zero Day.
brett18d2 2 weeks ago
poor benny :(
BlondexKhaos84 3 weeks ago 2
This movie is just plain horrible and ridiculous.
pproduction123 3 weeks ago
@pproduction123
i couldnt agree more...cant believe it won the golden palm at cannes festival.....
kissmymoney 3 weeks ago
@pproduction123 go watch some crappy generic action movie, the tracking shots in this film are actually genius!
comfyman 1 week ago
@comfyman No they are actually pretentious and overdrawn.
pproduction123 1 week ago
So much walking, who does he think he is michael myers or summin?
HibeeeHibernian 3 weeks ago
this movie sucked . walking and walking. horrible ending >.<.bang your dead is 10x better
xpalacioss 4 weeks ago
@xpalacioss It's not supopsed to be a stimulating and entertaining action movie, its a depiction of how within a short period of time many people can be affected and a represenation of the troubles facing youth today.
comfyman 1 week ago
can someone tell me why he shot his friend??????
MrElement333 4 weeks ago
Yawn
livkivi 4 weeks ago
alex is really cute :)
stephieejonazs 1 month ago
I think they could had done a lot better I mean I wat
cheese12368 1 month ago
I got some problems with this movie first off take out the DAMN LONG ASS AWKWARD WALKING SCENES!!! so that takes an hour away.... bad acting, really random gay shower scene and you cant buy gun off the internet like they did. other wise it would be good
AleXXenocide 1 month ago
WACKKKK!
jennybug916 1 month ago
Y the fuck did they make out in a shower?? That ruined it for me..
Nikom62 1 month ago
WORST PIECE OF SHIT EVER
naruto7482 1 month ago
esete wey siente q es resident evil
djcoketo1 1 month ago
This movie was truly bad.
pjautuvas 1 month ago
Honestly, how da fuck did this win at Cannes? Those elite fucks are suckers for anything tragic, regardless of shitty direction, acting, and cinematography.
herpderpmonkey 1 month ago
This movie lacks music,but then there's that really creepy ass shit playing when Alex runs around the building. Terrible mistake to watch this on my iPhone in a new jersey suburb on a Monday night at 1:22 in the morning
emichaels9411 1 month ago
mr.owl how many shots does it take to take down the principal?
lets find out 1 "bam" 2 "bam" 3 "bam"
3 shots
drkinferno72 1 month ago 2
Why is this movie called "Elephant" ?
thecomputerzombies99 1 month ago 3
@thecomputerzombies99 it's supposed to be a reference to some chinese proverb
MyBeautifulZombie 1 month ago
@thecomputerzombies99 because of an English idiom "there is an elephant in the room" to talk about a big problem that is being avoided intentionally.
oculonaso 1 month ago
Okay, to explain: the kid actors in the movie are purposefully "non-professional". They chose their own clothing and kept their original names for the characters they play. It was a directing choice for such inexperienced actors to be in a movie like this, so naturally the acting's gonna suck for Hollywood standards. But this isn't a Hollywood movie. It's meant to capture high school life as realistically as possible, to prepare for the very real tragedy of a high school shooting.
TheSpoonman00 1 month ago 3
it is not great acting and you can tell that some of the victims are composites of the original columbine victims.
rocknrollcola 1 month ago
Man, if I was hired to help out with this movie, I wouldn't even go. It's too cheap and horrible acting. Call me up when Spielberg, Scorcese, or Eastwood are directing.
themillenia 1 month ago
the acting is so bad i'm angry!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
jmajesty79 1 month ago
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ChokolateMuffinMuhah 2 months ago
@pinkthunderwonder The wtf was my general reaction to the ending, mainly him shooting his best friend out of nowhere. I liked the entire movie but like you, was confused. Hence, "WHAT. THE. FUCK."
rachrach35 2 months ago
why he killed his friend!? douche
pinkthunderwonder 2 months ago
that brunette killer is hott
pinkthunderwonder 2 months ago
w8 so he shot the other gunman? cuz at first i thought it was like a cop or something
HighAsAFriggingKit 2 months ago
WHAT. THE. FUCK.
rachrach35 2 months ago
@rachrach35 ... you have problems if you can't take a simple movie like this.
pinkthunderwonder 2 months ago
check it out
youtube.com /watch? v= PC3uV njswzI
1Troubl3zLokz3 2 months ago
WTH? bad acting, to much walking, Zero hour Columbine was better...
1Troubl3zLokz3 2 months ago
So Alex goes from being the guy being bullied in this movie to being the bully in Drillbit Taylor...ironic.
SWAGMrUpton 2 months ago
Did he just shoot his brother!?
also that was a Horrible ending It Should have been longer -_-"
Dawnstarofsnowclan 2 months ago
'zero day' is way better
mandyjanemore 2 months ago 2
the ending to this movie fucking sucks balls!!!
1987jocj1113 2 months ago
And I thought to myself, what the fuck.
freddur1 2 months ago
lol i shot 4 prinsible 4nd some other people B4NG
walkinginsun21 2 months ago
The kid that killed the nigger looks like Eminem
prettyb0y1992 2 months ago
Thats such a horrible movie in every way, 1/10 just cause he ending was half decent, all the movie is is following people and backs of people. Didn't even show why other than stuff thrown at alex, why he did it. And if they were basing this on columbine they failed big time.
StevenChristianson93 2 months ago
im sure they had their good reasons for it, but having them kill themselves at the end would have been a better ending and would have had more emotion. but overall i think this is a really good movie. the actors they chose werent THE best at acting, but for me it added to the realty of it. very good movie
1234MusicEqualsLife 3 months ago
not bad, preferred zero day though
adamtheclark 3 months ago 3
wtf kind of ending was that?
candyapplecarnage 3 months ago
Now every time I think of eniee meniee minee mo I think of people dying
xoRaspberryxo 3 months ago 3
pretty good movie. the ending blew though... there really was no ending i guess.
MCNeurotiK 3 months ago
@lumpymoose200 I meant to say that it IS loosely based. It's not supposed to be accurate or anything like that. For legal reasons and personal reasons,a "real" movie based on Colombine wouldn't be made.
kawbaby 3 months ago
@lumpymoose200 The movie isn't a movie loosely inspired by Columbine
kawbaby 3 months ago
WTF? In real life they killed themselves in the library, and they started at the west entrance out front? Good movie, captures the emotion of these kids, but terribley inacurate.
lumpymoose200 3 months ago
Why did Alex shoot Eric???
cheerfulchip197 3 months ago
i loved how he shot his friend o well not like they r gonna b around all alex has 2 to is walk away
AlbertWesker201 3 months ago
I am so confused with this movie? Like why did he shoot his lover? Why didn't police come? Why did the people in the background are like "Oh there is a serial killer right behind me I should take my sweet ass time going to the exit to save my life." Why didn't anyone see the big ass bags and in milatary clothes? Why did that nigger walking toward the gunshots? "Oh I am going to be a hero!" Lastley why didn't any of the victems rush the gun men and beat the shit out of them? Horrible movie...
SteamMonkey115 4 months ago
@SteamMonkey115
Because, this isn't a game you idiot. Smart people wouldn't just bum rush two guys that are armed to the teeth. Once I hear gun shots being fired, I turn the other way and RUN. Unless I have a gun, than I'll stay and fight.
ThePlacardman 2 months ago
@ThePlacardman No, You must have mis-understood my comment. Like at the end if someone is pointing a gun to your face and is about to kill you what do you do? Die like a dumbass, or Die trying to live? I would rush him and rip his eyes from his face if I was about to die. At least I wouldn't die without a fight.
SteamMonkey115 2 months ago
i thought it was an ok movie but the ending fuckin sucked.....
ZombieDog69 4 months ago 3
look closely at 1:13/1:14 bottom right corner. I saw something move.
MaxHugoVideos 4 months ago
Am i the only one who thinks the acting is terrible?
songbirdsxxz 4 months ago 78
@songbirdsxxz That's because there's so much walking going on, nobody really pays attention to the acting.
mjg01906 3 months ago
@songbirdsxxz Gus van Sant usually has a thing for newcomers
MrA4013 3 months ago
@songbirdsxxz All the people in the film aren't actors, they're real high school students for the most part.
PTizzleAusGN 2 months ago
The only reason for that would be that the director, Gus Van Sant didn't get actors to play these roles, but simply ordinary school kids. There was no script, no plan. They knew what it was leading up to, that was all - much else was improvised. And that's the beauty of the film. So, I think the "acting" isn't really acting at all.
HawkerRPhoenix 2 months ago
@songbirdsxxz zero day shit ALLL over this
ANZACS100 3 weeks ago 5
the idea was goood. the end disapoiting.
Zero day aloot better
andremiguel123 4 months ago
Did anyone else expect the black guy to rise up behind him after being shot?
donovan3955 4 months ago 31
@donovan3955 Like I said, Benny the black dude tried to be a hero but failed miserably
rickyibarra 3 weeks ago
Wow!!!!! A disappointing and horrible movie!!!!!!!
mattrockstheworld1 4 months ago 3
umm.......hmmm......i cant find words to describe this shit .-."a
Winry124930 4 months ago
This is the worst fucking movie I have ever seen in my life.
WailordLvX 4 months ago
this is very disappointing.....was nothing like the real columbine shooting. dylan and eric both commited suicide in the library...
robinfloyd3 4 months ago
this ended up being a lot worse than i thought. i'm pretty disappointed.
vtmike13 4 months ago
rampage is better than elephant
miszundaztood06 4 months ago
i kinda really like the ending scene in the movie. even though it's cruel mocking
fishycrackers101 4 months ago
Sucked balls(shower scene) zero day is better
killface234 4 months ago
shit movie
Easy11019 5 months ago
he didnt shoot his friend in real life
kAsHMoN311 5 months ago
odd movie but i kinda liked it?
miley9537839 5 months ago
This movie...an intresting and well thought out idea, it just could've been done better.
feindclub666 5 months ago
I thought the most interesting thing about this movie was the fact that no one in the movie had prior acting experience, almost all of them even used their real names. The way the camera followed everyone around during the same school day and you saw how their lives crossed paths at different points. Plus the flat out truth of the movie is scary. People really are that blind in life
Ma1iciousMike 5 months ago
I wanted Benny to get shot right when I saw his ass walking around like he owned the building. Dumb ass should have gotten out when he could have.
Ma1iciousMike 5 months ago
this movie sucks ass lols ;.
ry3304 5 months ago
Ok? this shit fuckin sucks black ass
badgirlsclubhoe 5 months ago
If you count it out in your head, he is pointing at the girl in the end
Nombombs 5 months ago
I would have preferred a 2 hour movie with more character development and less long-winded pointless shots of people walking through hallways
gravyhouse 5 months ago
People should stop bitching. It's a good movie.
misznatashaaa123 5 months ago
The end of this movie scares the shit out of me.
MissMaddyPatty524 6 months ago
He even passes by dead bodies in the hallway. Does that light a fire under his butt?!? Nope. He still can't put two and two together and see any danger. Is he planning to do something heroice (fight rather than flight)? Nyet. He makes himself a sitting duck approaching the shooter,with no protection. Surprise! He gets killed. As silly as the father and son who give up trying to warn the school and stupidly stare at the school, bonding. Feel sorry for an actor with such a stupid role.
sportshistorybuff 6 months ago 2
Hard to think of a more ridiculous story line that what the script has the Black athlete doing as a school massacre going on all around him. Screaming and gun shots loud enough for the entire study body to empty the halls. What does he do. Wonder aimlessly as if he cannot process that something bad is happening. He has every chance in the world to escape, especially when he helps the girl out the window. What does he do then? He returns to aimlessly wander, almost begging to be shot. He
sportshistorybuff 6 months ago 2
Hard to think of a more ridiculous story line that what the script has the Black athlete doing as a school massacre going on all around him. Screaming and gun shots loud enough for the entire study body to empty the halls. What does he do. Wonder aimlessly as if he cannot process that something bad is happening. He has every chance in the world to escape, especially when he helps the girl out the window. What does he do then? He returns to aimlessly wander, almost begging to be shot.
sportshistorybuff 6 months ago
that was a weird ending...
IceEyedBlackWolf 6 months ago
There's another film that was inspired by Columbine called 'Heart Of America'. It's amazing.
Youtube search: Heart Of America - Part 1. It's an amazing film
TheNobodyPMK 6 months ago
This movie reminds me of the movie 2:37. Which you can also watch on youtube. This is a pretty damn good movie though.
punkidntno 6 months ago
@punkidntno Dont you dare compare movies 2:37 was a masterpiece this was a massive-piece... of shit
jennybug916 1 month ago
Wtf the black guy is supposed to have plus 90 to bullet resistance!!
Travisthetoaster 6 months ago
@Travisthetoaster lmfao! not everyones 50 cent
xoxoxpeaches 6 months ago
What the fuck that's how it ends? Zero Day is much better!
Meowsnugzfacepow 6 months ago
Lol when he shot his partner
sbwoy 6 months ago
SUPRISE!!!! there was a black guy in the film, but he died
CriTicOfsOrts 6 months ago
@CriTicOfsOrts there was one black guy who died in the actual killing at the school..his name was iysaha..
xoxoxpeaches 6 months ago
Wow.. I feel sick after watching this. So horrible.
pollyallover 6 months ago
@pollyallover Whine-1-1 Somebody call the Waaahmbulance!
YouHateGasgara 6 months ago
with the exception of coyote7272 and the city monster among others, most of you guys are ignorant a-holes who treat everything as a joke even something as tragic as a school shooting. would you laugh looking through the barrel of the gun?
TheOfficialJelly 6 months ago
@thalaxia
Pain, sadness, abuse can make a person like this.
TheCitymonster 6 months ago
Lol he killed his friend who helped him with the massacre - FAYUL
MrAlcoholic11 6 months ago
gringos de mierda
maximarisio 6 months ago
@maximarisio shut up wetback
business555 2 months ago
: / really bad movie i think its in my top 10 crappy movies! i timed it around 50 mins were walking 20 mins talk 20 mins shoot WTF!
mralamao24 6 months ago
@thalaxia :p nothing against you just saying why i said that. hope we're cool :)
199291931 6 months ago
@thalaxia nope not spoiled and i know what it's like to have a death in the family. oh and it's a movie buddy the characters aren't real and i can distinguish reality from fantasy. I was picked on douche bags like this back when i was in grade school and a little bit of high school. This one ashole who was on the football team thought he was hot shit and always picked on me. So think before you reply to a comment that's three weeks old ; -)
199291931 6 months ago
@thalaxia let me guess you are a jock or a preppy girl friend of one :p
199291931 6 months ago
ummmmmmmmmmm he just shot him that was unexpected
kendrago1 6 months ago
One of the best movies I've ever seen. Thanks for putting it up. :)
EnemyField09 6 months ago
i will never ever be able to play or hear fur elise without having this shaking feeling in my chest
NymphadoraBeeWolf 7 months ago
It was unique though, I've never seen a similar movie like this, with the stalker-cam following around, shadowing varieties of people for an everyday high school life, while it did portray a good story, through means of bringing the viewer in depth to ordinary lives and comparing them to the hidden horrors that awaited these students, and why they couldn't react to the "elephant" in the room when the two kids arrived with their plans. I do agree that all that, could have been better portrayed.
coyote7272 7 months ago in playlist Elephant 13
@coyote7272 2:37 is movie very similar to this. its an australian film.
brndnrckn 4 months ago
@coyote7272 there is a similar film called "the life before her eyes" which is also good like this movie.
more emotional i think.
meggytheainsel 3 months ago
This movie was so poorly made. Like other people have commented the concept was good but I probably could have made a better movie back when I was in high school. There are soooo many things I could point out in this film that are just straight up stupid but I'm sure plenty of viewers have already pointed most of them out.
420Guitar420 7 months ago
How has no one pulled the fire alarm by this point?
MassacreOMG 7 months ago
Scale of 1 to 10, I'd give it a 5.The last part is laughable. No high school food service program has hanging sides of beef. If it wasn't for government meat, they'd have little or none. I expected more out of Gus Van Sant. Big disappointment. That this movie received an award at Cannes is evidence that alot of "film experts" have a hard time getting their heads out of their collective asses.
farmasyst 7 months ago
why did alex kill eric at the end? i never understood that bit. was it because of the shower scene he hated him for it?
snapple6661 7 months ago
@snapple6661 I think it was just him knowing they were going to have to kill themselves anyway
jermmmmm 7 months ago
I can understand why people don't like the movie, but I think its everyday-ness and all the walking, people doing normal things...brings out the cruelty a lot better. By highlighting the unspectacular and innocent actions on the one side, the massacre on the other becomes even more pointless. I love this movie, it's very smart.
MisusePerfected 7 months ago
i hope he killed that jock douche and his skank girl friend >:D
199291931 7 months ago
@199291931 fuck yeah lol
snapple6661 7 months ago
@199291931
but yea i mean i feel that we can label, which this movie shows: jock, popular kids, loser kid, nerdy girl..but in the end we're all just humans searching for joy in a world that is full of insecurity and labels. Even the kid who kills all those students was motivated out of sadness, despair. it's like there's no such thing as pure evilness. just a mess of the mind and heart, with the tangled rope of popular culture and the need to be loved
TheCitymonster 6 months ago
no emergency sprinkler system?
FlamingParanoiaSpoon 7 months ago
i dont really like the ending.... it leaves me in suspense...
lulukox 7 months ago
Did anyone bother to call the police?
llaura15 7 months ago 20
@llaura15 omg i was just thinking about that, and they hardly screem either its like oh then lol
bubbles51096 4 months ago
i hate when people who dont get it, post comments about it. if you dont understand the quality and intensity and meaning behind the film, dont fucking talk about it.
strokeofgenious 8 months ago
rubbish
deadgoodman 8 months ago 3
Although not the best movie ever made, I must say the scenes where you can see a previous scene in the background of the current one are a fantastic idea. Really gives the film a ominous tone and creates tension, because you know whats about to take place.
DAVIDJAMES12691 8 months ago
Stupid ending.
fanblow 8 months ago
... this would have been better as a book, not a visual medium. But, as a book the writer would have been forced to really emphasize the characters and not just brush over them nonchalantly with day-to-day events that do not have any real bearing on WHO those characters are as people. I'd recommend Robert McKee's STORY as a primer.
J9Naimoli 8 months ago
@bartelby123 I couldn't disagree more. I'm not looking at this movie expecting to see big hollywood-style explosions and crazy effects. I'm looking at character development in a "character-driven" story. None of these characters change in any way. The plot is literally a sequence of events with no emotional grab to the main character (except for the library chick). Please re-read my other posts as you clearly misunderstood me. Looking at this as a "commercial" piece that HBO invested in,
J9Naimoli 8 months ago
terrible movie. thought itd get better as it went along.. smh
raimondon1 8 months ago
But, for a character -driven story, none of the characters experience any true development. Also, the writer missed many opportunities to maximize on emotionally connecting the characters to the audience. Poorly done.
J9Naimoli 8 months ago
@J9Naimoli I guess what you say is true if you look at it on a very superficial level. True, It's not spoon-fed to the audience and it's certainly not executed (no pun) in a traditional,dramatic, in-your-face fashion that audiences have come to expect from their films...but this film definitely succeeds in presenting this subject matter and how peoples lives are affected by it in a very subtle manner that definitely resonates for those that are in tune with what the director is communicating.
bartelby123 8 months ago
This was probably one of the worst movies I've ever seen. The subject matter is the ONLY thing that held my attention to the end - and just barely. The acting is poor at best, the "quiet" scenes are far too long, and the writing is just bad. There was no actual character arc. The characters did not change in any way. Its like I was watching a really bad series of events that just barely held together with minute amounts of substance. The character set-up was OK. But, for a character-driv
J9Naimoli 8 months ago
who got the rights to this movie?! low ass budget, bad actors
TheBlankbullets6 8 months ago
Wow. I really didn't like this movie. 2:37 was really good.
dancerchic189 8 months ago
supergay movie
spemux 8 months ago
what the fuck type of ending was that!?!?! i'm still in suspense fuckers, what the hell happened!!?!?!
Sephie666 8 months ago
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This movie is brilliant.
AddictedtoBlistex 8 months ago
Why is this called Elephant?
lizikakizil 8 months ago
so a sniper killed his friend?
JacobAllin 8 months ago
@JacobAllin No, If he did, you would not hear a gunshot.
th3planetsghost 8 months ago
@th3planetsghost so his friend killed him? sorry i only watched it once .
JacobAllin 8 months ago
That shot came from the back.. horrible effects lol.. Still love Gus Van Sant though..
FeedmeJUice 8 months ago
The acting in this is so laughable.. what a shitty movie.
xXLazarus23Xx 8 months ago
even though the shootout's disturbing, i take alex (the kid in black) a little less seriously. he walks around with the same face he has the whole movie. when i heard this film was about a school shooting, i expected the killers to be running around with dark and furious faces.
emichaels9411 8 months ago
if you noticed he fell before he was shot
gintail1 8 months ago
insane? no these kids are fucking heros. erik dylan u guys ae my fucking brothers in arms and my heros
germansoldier1944 8 months ago in playlist elephant
why the fuck he shot his friend for nigga ill shoot you
Darian571 9 months ago
Maybe this movie was inspired by the Columbine massacre but not based on it....
hsubxsarah 9 months ago
@hsubxsarah everything is exactly the same, come on. Well, the personalities are different, but everything else is exactly the same or at least a very well done copy of the actual shooting.
aapinator 9 months ago
@aapinator Not exactly... like the first people that were killed weren't in the school, they were outside, and the two boys both shot them selves in the library, and the principal didn't die, although there are lots of similarities there are alot of differences that is why i think this movie was only inspired by it...
hsubxsarah 9 months ago