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In Reply to: Elephant (Gus Van Sant) posted by ephemere on May 07, 2004 at 09:19:10:
Not Gus's strongest effort, but the wife and I watched this one the other night and agreed, it was fairly solid... the way it was shot kept us transfixed, a most ordinary schoolday, with 5 or 6 'points-of-view' shot non-stop, which makes for some tedious sequences, but gives it a very 'real' effect, almost as if Gus decided it was a better way to pull your strings at the climax than had he bothered with character development
From a 'story' viewpoint, I give it a 'B-'... from a 'work of art' viewpoint, I give it a 'B'... better than your average rental
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I watched it a second time the next day (the beauty of Netflix), and I was still riveted the whole way through -- even more so the second time, actually. There is intentionally no "story" at all, really, so it's pointless to give it a letter grade it on that basis. I think it's GVS's best film to date, and one of the best films I've seen in a while. Then I found out it won the Palme d'Or and Best Director prizes at the 2003 Cannes. It seems as if few people have seen this film.
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