Take 1: Gus Van Sant’s Elephant memorializes Columbine to make sense of children hunting children. There is no lesson and no uplift, just an attempt to make everyone seem like 3-D people, shooters included.
Take 2: Columbine is a mononym for inexplicable violence. Elephant humanizes the context for mass school shooting events and hits hard after many circuitous minutes of teenagers trapped in a loop of innocence.
–November 30, 2021
