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From: Marker
Category: Films
Date: 27 October 2004
Another cliche to stuff in the canon: adolescents drift about in a meaningless universe where we can have no understanding of their motives or characters (besides which teen arcehtype they belong to. See Lary Clarke's Kids.
Elephant has a certain sort of Wong Kar-Wei ish beauty of action sublimated into a dance of saggy trousered children walking down corridors. And it also captures some of the boredom of school, and of daze like that. Inspired by the Columbine massacre, though, its violent end seems meaningless and not in a meaningful way. It tells nothing of why kids massacre kids, (for no reason, or the reason of American school's ubiquitous, and therefore uncausal, social hierarchies, it posits) or it can't be understood, but subtler realism would be needed to prove such a banal hypothesis.
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