Randolph wrote:
*Aside from a couple of the characters, I found the film generally focused
on the superficial banality of kids
living out their days in a rich suburban neighborhood*
I couldn't hardly remember the girls in the bathroom in Elephant mentioned
by Randolph, but I remember lots of portrayals of teenagers, which I found
sympathetic, for example the photographer or the one whose father was an
alcoholic, or the girl who comforted him. I never had the impression, that
any of them did deserve what was happening or that the filmmaker was
suggesting that. It is an epic film, we don't really get to know any of the
teenagers, there is not much to identify with. But they become real in
another sense, as we meet them in the movie like we meet real people on the
street. That way I could make sense of the idea of the walking observer.
But this is only one reading. Apparently, the film seems to provoke very
different kinds of reactions, depending on the context as Randolph
suggested.
I am very surprised, too.
Herbert.
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