Jt time for s 20th Cann anniversary, we're talkg about gay director G Van Sant's Elephant (2003) which tak a fictnal doceri approach to the Columbe massacre. C/W for anyone volved a (school) shootg. Expect a lot of talk about the film's technil elements: the long tak, the dispassnate vlence, the e of non-profsnal actors a real school, and the lack of a nventnal begng/middle/end. Pl: nuanced queer cln, bate about G Van Sant's "msage", praise for Ebert's review, and Trace's thoughts on Michael Moore's Bowlg for Columbe. Referenc: > Roger Ebert. "Review: Elephant." Roger > Matthew Millheiser. "Elephant DVD Review." DVD Talk > Nathaniel R. "HBO’s LGBT History: Elephant." The Film Experience Qutns? Comments? Snark? Connect wh the boys on Twter, Instagram, Youtube, Letterboxd, Facebook, or jo the Facebook Group to get touch wh other listeners > Trace: @tracedthurman > Joe: @bstolemyremote Be sure to support the boys on Patreon! Theme Mic: Alexanr Nakarada Hosted on Ast. See for more rmatn. Learn more about your ad choic. Vis
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ONE OF N.L.'S FIRST MARRIED GAY UPL LOOK BACK WH PRI
Usg mostly non-profsnal actors and featurg dizzyg long-tak to make you feel the passg of time leadg up to the horrific events at a high school Portland, the film is not immediately or easily talogued as an “LGBT” film, but mak for a fascatg entry to our long-nng project, given both s director and s oblique treatment of homosexualy. Were the only scene the film ncerned wh homosexualy, we might be quick to ame this moment as an attempt to further “other” both shooters, potg to their burgeong (or reprsed?
) homosexualy as ditive of their other abnormal tennci. Isn’t this the allegoril ath-driven gay male figure society fears? But, this is a Van Sant film, one which giv a lengthy scene at the school’s Gay Straight Alliance meetg, so such a facile ncln is hard to make.
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His ank and unsentimental pictn of gay youth marks Elephant as an anomaly among the recent films we’ve looked at: there’s no heightened emotnal drama to ame the characters as Alan Ball’s Six Feet Unr, and no soc-cultural amework to help unrstand this muny as we had The Laramie Project. In this stands alone treatg s characters (gay or straight) wh the same different gaze; there li s transgrsive and rehg sensibily, bee boy is unlike anythg we've looked at on here. Power and David Philpott had to make their own ke topper by glug groomsmen figur togetherFrom “partner” to “hband”: meet one of the first married gay upl N.
Philpott and Power may have been the first gay uple the provce to be legally married, but the trail they blazed was soon followed by many, wh the St. Este subredd tá stado a Lbianas, Gays, Bisexual, Transexual, Queer, etc que hablen pañol y quieran partir noticias, experiencias y anécdotas referidas al tema. The same scen are repeated through the ey of different characters—not to suggt that each person’s realy is different, as Rashomon (1950), but to tensify your empathy for kids who have no ia what’s g.
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One of the killers mak homosexual overtur to the other, but isn’t clear if he’s really gay or jt sperately needs some human ntact. The shooters had to be reprsed homosexuals?
Why was necsary to show them as homosexuals? Jt time for s 20th Cann anniversary, we're talkg about gay director G Van Sant's Elephant which tak a fictnal doceri approach to the Columbe massacre. But the film’s crics found those bs of character background sultgly simplistic: By layg the blame on outsi factors — cludg the young men’s closeted homosexualy — was Van Sant suggtg the were reasons why someone would shoot up their school?