"Your life is not the same as many people", persimmon is probably the case. After the Wenchuan earthquake, Persimmon went to Sichuan on duty. We had a brief chat on the Internet. He said that he basically stopped eating vegetables after the miso sauce he brought with him. He said that there is not so much water, and the water is always cut off. His lips have been chapped for almost two months. Become a bunny. . . He said it took a month and a half for someone to send something from home. . . If you are sick and your respiratory tract is inflamed, you can wear a mask. He said, "Have you ever seen a policeman who is well-dressed and wearing a mask?" . . If he wasn't a cop, I don't know how punk he would be wearing.
Well, let's talk about The Elephant. Multi-view storytelling, 360-degree rotating photography, icy "zero" narration, plenty of empty shots and proper slow motion. The film's muted foreground music and raucous soundtracks create a strange sense of alienation, sometimes a soothing piano piece in the foreground, sometimes a wall clock swinging, sometimes a soft, barely audible heartbeat. , and sometimes the chirping of seagulls. You don't know the real thoughts of the various characters traveling through the campus. Under the smooth notes of "To Alice", hidden is the thrilling school shooting incident. This is a massacre.
Follow-up shots are used in many places in the film, and the audience follows behind the characters like voyeurs. Probably what I disliked the most about this film was this "following". Following is an attitude, which means indifference most of the time, and surrender at extremes. The movie the killers Alex and Eric watched was Triumph of the Will, the most famous mythical Nazi movie.
We live in the same world, but we see the world differently. There are as many circles in this world as there are rules. The rules of the school are that each grade has one or two precocious and charming girls, which make adolescent boys restless; sportsmen must be diligent and have sex with different cheerleaders; there are always a few girls who are inseparable and keen to gossip. You see, in school, grades are never the only measure of good or bad.
If one wants to be different, one is doomed to be alone. Michelle, the curly-haired girl, is a small person. At first glance, she is a little person with weird behavior and a lonely personality. She would suddenly stop while running and look up at the sky. Such a girl, the teacher can only talk to her about "Why don't you cut your hair short like other girls?" Such boring questions, and Michelle will be the first to be shot.
The name of the film, Elephant, comes from a Western proverb. It means that when the elephant walks into the bedroom, people either think the elephant is fake, or the bedroom is fake, indicating that something was unexpected. People usually only believe what they want to believe, and they don't see what they don't want to believe.
In the film, the blond boy John suddenly cried at the door of the classroom.
A girl came over and said, are you crying?
Yes.
Did something unpleasant happen?
I have no idea.
The girl gently kissed the boy on the cheek and walked away.
Sometimes people cry for no reason. The picture selected for the movie poster is this moment. Although this scene has little to do with the whole school shooting story, it is almost the only tender moment in the whole film. If there was a reason for the atrocities, it would be what Alex said - "We were not happy at all at school."
Why did the boy John dye his blond hair? Actually, there is no reason.
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