Elephant by Alan Clarke














One interesting thing about this movie is the lack of dialogue within it, relying on other sound effects, as well as other film form aspects. One advantage of choosing to leave most of the dialogue out of the short film is that it forces the audience to pay attention to the other aspects of the film, as well as to make the other, no dialect sound, portrayed as louder and more jarring. Within this short film, this is especially useful in making the many gun shots heard in the film , making each of the shots stand out in the minds of the public. Another way in which the film focuses the audience's attention on the film's brutality is by repeated long lingering shots on the bodies of victims. The use of these shots draws the viewer's attention to the brutality of the crimes being performed,there is nothing to divert from the victims, the mind is concentrated solely on the victim, the lack of sound means there is nothing to divert the viewer from the victim. In this film, the use of narrative is successful, since it subverts the traditional narrative line, We 're not introduced to any characters at the beginning of the film, we don't get a storey of why people are shooting, we 're left to guess what's going on and there's no explanation of the story line or the motives behind the shoot. There's also no narrative conflict resolution, we don't get a "happy ending" or an explanation of the film's ending, instead we're left with ten minuets of men walking which ends with a man shot in the head. This leaves the audience unsatisfied and almost angry at the end, I certainly felt angry by the Ending, as the film's repetition I expected something to alter, and yet nothing did, it was the same constant patten over and over. The single scene with dialogue in it made me keep watching, because I expected the trend to shift, yet yet it only stayed the same, repeated over and over again, and yet the audience is still watching, not completely sure that it will not be This time, different. The film shows the conflict as 
needless and unchangeable in Northern Ireland. This war is never explicitly mentioned, but this film 
is a reflection of Ireland's troubles and other matters. There is no happy ending, just like the troubles, when the people of Ireland do not see an end to the troubles and anything else Problems that the citizens of Ireland have faced, and the fundamental issues still remain within the country today because of these issues. The film also reveals the real essence of the war, with the character eager to die at the end of the film, and how the soldiers in the war are ready to die, genuinely believing it was for the greater good.

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