Analysis of Elephant, by Gus Van Sant

In today's society, various forms of art always go around us. The music we play through the headphones, the advertisements we encounter, and even the buildings built on the New York skyline can be regarded as art. One of the most popular art media at the moment is movie production. Movies tell stories, express emotions, and use moving pictures to convey ideas. The unique point of film art is that viewers can become their themes and characters and experience their situation.

Several famous movies from the 2000s are thought to have artistic movie quality, but it is different from mainstream movies due to controversial themes and story formats. For example, Gus Van Sant 's movie "Elephant" (2003) portrays a mass murder in high school, reflecting the massacre of Columbine high school and receiving the highest award at the Cannes Film Festival. His other movies include Jerry, the last day and the delusive park. Complex decomposition of Todd Hayn 's Bob Dylan' s role, I am not there (2007), different Dylan stories telling the story with six sketches, non - traditional story techniques techniques stimulated the character. Mexican director Guillermo del Toro film director, Pan's Labyrinth creates a fantasy-filled world imagined by a ten-year-old girl to stop the fear of Spanish civil war using computer generated images (CGI) Did.

With the aftermath of paranoia, Gus van Sant has released a wonderful movie on school shooting. It is a novel, but the 2003 film reflects the popular killing of Columbine. It revealed imperfections and cruelty of the school culture in which a ridiculous child offered terrible prophecies. "You know that people like us, if they are like them they will kill you just as you are with me and Alex." He warned. Of course, violence always occurs in American schools, but the death of students in poor cities is not spreading the news in the same way. Because of the killing in the suburbs of the United States, the anger of society is left behind, it is the hypocrisy pointed out by Eminem. "Look at where it is Central America, now is a tragedy Now it is sad to see the city in the high society, his single in 2000 is mine ' Inside road "