Negated possibilities
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greenie_breizhGus Vant Sant, about his movie Elephant and school shootings:
"I think that the kids will probably be the best audience [fore Elephant]. I think they recognize the "answers" as scapegoats and red herrings. They know that the answer is way more unpredictable than having a specific answer. These are the signs to look for – if you do so – it will be safe. If you look for these signs – than you can fix it before it happens. The teens in this country are smarter than that, they know that it is less curable. It requires more thinking than that in order to come up with a resolve."
"It's not that I don't want you involved in the characters, but I wantyou involved by watching them, an observation, the way documentarianFrederick Wiseman sits back and lets things occur. We could haveinvented a more traditional psychological narrative. I have my ideaswhy Columbine happened, but that's not this film. I wanted a poeticimpression rather than dictating an answer. I wanted to include theaudience's thoughts."
"We didn't want to explain anything. As soon as you explain one thing,there are five other possibilities that are somehow negated because you explained it in one way. There was also the issue of finding an explanation for something that doesn't necessarily have an explanation."
As you may have guessed, I watched Elephant again today. It was less intense than expected, but still an amazing movie. The direction in particular is just stellar - it feels like each shot is its own photograph, constructed carefully. Artistically I'm really amazed by the movie. As for the story itself - I still find it's one of the best (and most truthful) portrayal of school life ever filmed. The whole of it just feels so fluid and real. Anyway, I made a lot of captures and writing is not the good outlet, I made icons. I ended up changing my whole set of icons, and my whole layout, and I'm pretty happy with it - I love that quote, it says it all.
On that note, I need to finish The Moonstone tonight. I've also found the episodes of Transgeneration. It's really bewildering that everything about trans would come my way now.
"I think that the kids will probably be the best audience [fore Elephant]. I think they recognize the "answers" as scapegoats and red herrings. They know that the answer is way more unpredictable than having a specific answer. These are the signs to look for – if you do so – it will be safe. If you look for these signs – than you can fix it before it happens. The teens in this country are smarter than that, they know that it is less curable. It requires more thinking than that in order to come up with a resolve."
"It's not that I don't want you involved in the characters, but I wantyou involved by watching them, an observation, the way documentarianFrederick Wiseman sits back and lets things occur. We could haveinvented a more traditional psychological narrative. I have my ideaswhy Columbine happened, but that's not this film. I wanted a poeticimpression rather than dictating an answer. I wanted to include theaudience's thoughts."
"We didn't want to explain anything. As soon as you explain one thing,there are five other possibilities that are somehow negated because you explained it in one way. There was also the issue of finding an explanation for something that doesn't necessarily have an explanation."
As you may have guessed, I watched Elephant again today. It was less intense than expected, but still an amazing movie. The direction in particular is just stellar - it feels like each shot is its own photograph, constructed carefully. Artistically I'm really amazed by the movie. As for the story itself - I still find it's one of the best (and most truthful) portrayal of school life ever filmed. The whole of it just feels so fluid and real. Anyway, I made a lot of captures and writing is not the good outlet, I made icons. I ended up changing my whole set of icons, and my whole layout, and I'm pretty happy with it - I love that quote, it says it all.
On that note, I need to finish The Moonstone tonight. I've also found the episodes of Transgeneration. It's really bewildering that everything about trans would come my way now.
