Elephant, an Absurd Will Hunting



Elephant, an Absurd Will Hunting

Introduction

When our memories about “art film” still stay in Antonioni and Godard's era, Gus Van Sant unexpectedly knocks the door, and says, “Hey, it is century twenty-one.” Sant's Elephant provides no enlightenment or meaning of making this film but the absurdity and tries to hunt those young people who are ignorant. The film introduces the viewers with a long shot of the day to the night sky above a telegraph pole.

Discussion

We arrive at a suburban area in Portland and begin to follow John Robinson, a blonde guy and one of the leading ...