Elephant

Okay so, I originally went to bed at 1:00 okay, so I got off the computer at 1:00 but didn’t go to bed until about 2:20 or so.. this is AM folks. But anyway. The reason I went to bed so late/early was because I was watching this movie called Elephant and it was pretty much a fictional story based off of the 1999 Columbine High School Massacre, I don’t know what made me so intregied by it but when I started watching it, I couldn’t stop watching it. The director did this change where it would show the story of one character, than it would switch to another character. So you saw a lot of repeat scenes if one character interacted with another. The ending was probably the most disturbing but greatest ways to end a movie ever.

Alex and Eric (the shooters) were in the cafeteria, and Eric is talking about how many people he shot and than Alex shoots him. Alex hears something and he goes looking. He finds Nathan and Carrie (a jock and his girlfriend) in the freezer in the cafeteria kitchen and Alex goes there and he points his gun at them and than he proceeds to do the following.

He goes back and forth between Nathan and Carrie, saying Eenie Meenie Miny Moe until he gets to the end of the song. Just as he gets to the last moe the scene changes to a cloud covered sky as it slowly turns into a dark thunderstorm looking sky. And than.. the credits rolled.

Okay so I figured I know why I liked this movie, because I have a weird fascination with things of this nature. I always want to think about what is up with people what’s going on in there mind just before they do something horrible like this. This movie sorta helped me figure that out, well it helped me figure out and understand. High school is a cruel place, but people still continue to harrass other students. Someone really needs to step up on this and change it.

Anyway.. i’m out.

edited on (11:40pm): new header image!