Elephant
Director: Gus Van Sant
USA 2003, 81 min, 35mm

Gus Van Sant’s Elephant takes us inside an American high school on what appears to be an ordinary day. Elephant unfolds on an ordinary day, filled with class work, football, gossip and socializing. The film observes the comings and goings of its characters from a gentle remove, allowing us to see them as they are. For each of the students we meet, high school is a different experience: stimulating, friendly, traumatic, lonely, hard. Beautiful and poetic – yet deeply disturbing - Elephant shows high school life as a complex landscape where the vitality and incandescent beauty of young lives can shift from light to darkness with surreal speed.



Jesus Hirj, does this mean you left your house?
saw Cries and Whispers recently. kinda jarring watching Bergman in colour.

Forget Brazil. A movie people should truly be talking about right now is one i saw yesterday. Elephant, by Gus Van Sant. a horrifying, brilliant, nihilistic film about school violence. i urge everyone with half a brain to see it. however, if you found harley davidson and the marlboro man to be a masterpiece you may be well advised to ignore what i have just said


Brazil may be designated a "classic" according to the internet, but consider that the word classic (when talking to about a movie) is the most overused word since love

I dunno, Hirj... A basic Google search reveals that "brazil sci-fi classic" returns 128000 hits, whereas "brazil not sci-fi classic" returns a paltry 107000 hits. While some may argue that Google does not possess half a brain (I defy you to find someone with a full brain who can find information faster than Google on a consistent and wide ranging basis), the facts remain. Statistically, and unequivocally (for no scientific study is more well recognized or more conclusive than a Google search), Brazil is indeed a sci-fi classic.

Brazil is not a sci fi classic. anyone with half a brain can tell that

Conservative Punk

hmmm... I just noticed that my current fixation with neon pink has crept up in the vast majority of those little 15-min sketch things I just posted. I wasn't actually aware of that until now. I guess the moral of this story is: never underestimate the subconscious; it's one sneaky mother fucker.

thankyouandgoodnite... again.

THANKYOU AND GOODNITE!!!

Grand Theft Auto Vice City screenshot:

Retrofitting an old mac to make it look like the computers used in the sci-fi classic "Brazil".

New Elvis impersonators raising the bar with beautiful cameltoes: