We have now seen the film ”Elephant”, that tells about the school shooting at Columbine High School the April 1999 in Jefferson County, Colorado in the US. On that date something really horrible happened at Columbine High School. Two boys called Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold, seventeen and eighteen years, old had got weapons through a man, who simply accepted their order and sent them the weapons. The boys drove to their school carrying flammable gasses, different kinds of bombs and pistols. They entered the school and placed some bombs in the cafeteria. Their original plan was to shoot any student who would try to escape when the bombs came off. But the bombs didn’t explode and instead they started to shoot their schoolmates. They killed twelve students and one teacher before committing suicide. They caused a lot of panic and left many wounded students behind them.
The movie
The scenery in the film is one day, the 20th of April 1999 where the massacre took place. We are following some students. In the beginning we’re following John’s day. It’s filmed with the cameraman walking behind the student, following John walking through the school corridors and the athletic fields. We also see who he meets and talks to. At a certain time John passes another central person in the movie and the camera wiev jumps to the other student and is now following his day. Now you occasionally see episodes you saw before in the background. The episodes are jumping in time, so you follow every central student’s day from the morning to the end of the massacre. Most of them die. You’re also following the day of the shooters. From early in the morning where one of the boys’ mother is leaving the house, to the son and his friend receive a big parcel post containing arms. They dress themselves in military clothes and drive to the school bringing the arms. Hereafter they start to murder.
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