Tuesday, March 15, 2005
Elephant In The Room
I'm a tad ill today, but working nonetheless. Last night, Thomas left Buenos Aires for a 32-hour bus ride to Sao Paulo. That's one long-ass bus ride : - ) Check out Peter's great photos of the Ashes and Snow Exhibit we saw Saturday and the temporary Nomad Museum that houses it.Want to strike back at minor annoyances? Great ideas in a NYT article today.
I saw Gus Van Sant's "Elephant" over the weekend, and thought it was just OK. This 80-minute film is an artsy, non-commital take on the Columbine High School shootings, and it follows several students in their daily roamings through and around the school. The film's second half shows two unassuming kids, influenced by nazi icons and imagery, preparing for and carrying out a mass slaughter, picking off fellow students one by one with assault weapons ordered on the internet. "Elephant" is short on dialogue, exposition, and insight, three important elements in any movie. It's for a good cause, but probably not worthy of the "Palme d'Or" it received at Cannes. On the other hand, it's a huge improvement over the director's "Good Will Hunting," one of my least favorite 90s movies, particularly for its flawed and misleading depiction of therapy. The title "Elephant", incidentally, refers to the 'elephant inside the room that nobody wants to see...'
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