Elephant - Gus Van Sant
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That's a very nice explanation prodigalslacker.
My thoughts when I watched that movie was that somehow it was connected with "Gerry".
There is a scene where one of the dudes is playing a shoot-em' up game that looks exactly like those Gerry landscapes.
In Gerry those two dudes are in search of "nothing" and all they talk about is some Sims in slang. Throughout the entire movie there's no emotion but just strategy and obstacles. Such situations as we found in adventure games.
Now, if there's no real emotional relationship but only virtual conversation and gaming situations, there's no established Wrong besides the "scoring" thing. Getting somewhere with no real point to it.
So blasting someone away is easy. It's just another challenge. High-school is not very different from an alienated game for a lot of teenagers today.
An Elephant could smash lives with no real point too.