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"Elephant" is a smart, studied and artful look at the school shooting phenomena. Director Gus Van Sant creates a dreamlike quality as events play out from the perspective of half a dozen or so unrelated students, all but two of whom believe it's just an ordinary day.

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Why was the movie 'Elephant' given that title?

What Clarke's title actually referred to was the idea of the "elephant in the room", where something is so obvious that to miss it would be the equivalent of not seeing a huge elephant in an ordinary room … In this film, the "elephant in the room" is the homicidal rage of Alex and Eric, which leaves them free to precipitate the last-scene massacre at their school. …
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