Elephant

So, this was among the bundle of movies that I bought for my birthday. It's slow-paced, but that, if you're paying attention, lends itself to an air of constructive confusion. The characters are regular teenagers, and they do alot to establish how normal it is to be screwed up nowadays. The types of characters that would normally be demonized for picking on the underdogs are brought to a pittiable level instead. One thing that really threw me off about the presentation is the gunfire. The guns that the charcters are carrying are real guns loaded with blank shells. A real gunshot is so loud that a microphone set for human voices won't pick it up normally, so it sounds fake. I thionk gus Van Saint did that on purpose as a kind of demonstration of our perceptions of reality. We're so used to hearing something fake and thinking it real that when we hear something real it sounds fake.

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