Elephant (Alan Clarke)
Elephant is a very short film lasting only around 8 minutes one part with no story-line or any background context. We jump straight into the action and it takes time to realise what's actually happening. There is no real structure of the narrative as it doesn't have any resolution or equilibrium. The "story" ends with a hang cliff when the man is about to shot someone, it ends like this but the audience is aware of what's going to happen even though it's not shown.
Very obvious to notice is lack of dialogue or any spoken word throughout the whole thing, on the other hand it's not necessarily needed for the story. The film contains repetition of the same scenes, it's like a loop that happens all over again every time. The scene always begins with a person walking and randomly killing someone, this happens every time after the previous scene is over. There is also same camera movements all the time it's panning, trucking or dolly when the camera follows the character, it also takes a time to find the victim so the shots are long. Also a long shot is after the murder on the dead body to keep viewer's focus still on the corpse.
Conflict in North Ireland is presented as that violence is there on daily basis and by performance we see that those killers killed them very calmly without a guilt. Ideology is to present North Ireland's issues that they deal with. And by mise-en-scene it's very brutal.
Elephant is a very short film lasting only around 8 minutes one part with no story-line or any background context. We jump straight into the action and it takes time to realise what's actually happening. There is no real structure of the narrative as it doesn't have any resolution or equilibrium. The "story" ends with a hang cliff when the man is about to shot someone, it ends like this but the audience is aware of what's going to happen even though it's not shown.Very obvious to notice is lack of dialogue or any spoken word throughout the whole thing, on the other hand it's not necessarily needed for the story. The film contains repetition of the same scenes, it's like a loop that happens all over again every time. The scene always begins with a person walking and randomly killing someone, this happens every time after the previous scene is over. There is also same camera movements all the time it's panning, trucking or dolly when the camera follows the character, it also takes a time to find the victim so the shots are long. Also a long shot is after the murder on the dead body to keep viewer's focus still on the corpse.
Conflict in North Ireland is presented as that violence is there on daily basis and by performance we see that those killers killed them very calmly without a guilt. Ideology is to present North Ireland's issues that they deal with. And by mise-en-scene it's very brutal.
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