Tedious (Elephant (DVD))

Member Name: CTVicky

Product:	Elephant (DVD)
Date:	01/08/09 (9 review reads)
Rating:

Advantages: Cinematography

Disadvantages: Boring dialogue, boring story

I believe that this film is only for people interested in direction and cinematography.

Why?

Because in my opinion, those are the only interesting things about Elephant.

The storyline is very boring and nothing really happens in the film until right at the end and even that is, suprisingly, fairly tedious.

It's supposed to be based on the Columbine School massacre in America. And that's it. It's not a re-enactment, which would have held some interest for me.

The direction and cinematography as I've said are good; some shots are very well set-up. The colours are realistic and the different scenes innovatively directed.

I was just very irritated by Elephant. Most of the film involved very long scenes which contained Coppola-esque, gratuitously long pauses between dialogue (one of my pet hates). There was no real drama and I think to be honest the whole film was pointless. It doesn't really tell us anything we didn't already know or assume.

Still, there are much worse films out there.

Summary: Pointless