Elephant's Genre

Elephant was inspired in the Columbine High school massacre in which two students shot 12 classmates, a teacher, wounding other people as well, and then they killed themselves.

This movie show us what we call Realism, in which what is shown is reality and facts. The main genre of this movie is Drama. Basically, this type of genre has to do with life situations. It shows the real problems that society has to deal everyday, such as alcoholism, poverty, drugs, mental illness, discrimination, among others.

Have you thought why the movie is called Elephant?

Violence, specially among teenangers, is a very serious problem that is happening in the last couple of year and people are not concerned about it enough. So, an elephant in this case represents violence because, for example, if you see an elephant in you living room, it should call your attention for is something unusual but it doesn't; people in this case see violence as a normal issue and it shouldn't be like that.