－－－－－－ The non-linear narrative structure of the inscription
"The Elephant" is commendable, and gus van sant also hides his long shots well, and the chapters of each character are actually pointing to the end of the tragedy .
What does this movie leave the audience with? I think the narrative structure of the video itself and the real events are one aspect, and more of it is the audience's thoughts after watching it. They are outliers on campus. They silently endure the bullying of the classmates around them. They have no friends. When they are in a place with many people, they seem to be surrounded by endless noises. Their emotions are quiet, sensitive and noisy. . As far as I know, every level of education, every school has students like this, you may not remember who they are, their lives have nothing to do with you, everyone seems to be able to use all kinds of reasons to bully them. Faced with questioning, those who bully them can always laugh indifferently and say something about me, as if everything should be right. Those scars seemed to leave no trace.
Rather than asking what caused Eric and Alex to create such a tragedy, what deserves more attention is why no one really pays attention to them, and why other students bully them. When did our education fail so much and when success became the only measure of a person's worth.
In human life, the result is only a trivial moment, and the process will not fade with time. Suppose you can ask these two people, in their lives, what is really worth remembering? I'm afraid it is difficult for them to remember that these two teenagers who have never tried to connect kisses have taken so many lives in a short period of time.
I think what this film wants to convey to the audience is essentially the same as "The Murder Case of the Youth on Guling Street". It makes people feel sad that, after so many years, the oppression of the environment on the youth has not decreased, but has become more and more severe. Xiao Si collapsed because of the collapse of his ideals and idols. From these two students, what we see is the kind of "rebellion without a reason", or it is the society that makes them collapse so silently, they can't bear it. Living. It has nothing to do with revenge or despair, it can be called the loss of values. But they did not choose to find their own position, but chose to destroy.
In fact, around you and me, we are all suffering from such hardships of life, but most people have become accustomed to it, and a small number of people have chosen to seek rebirth in the midst of destruction. Of course everyone can say it's none of my business, and we also chose to be murderers.
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