Elephant

I found this film completely hard to grasp and I would never have guessed the outcome of it. However one of the main types of shot used in this film is the tracking shot, this is used quite a few times throughout the film and despite me not liking the film I thought it gave it a really good atmosphere. I wasn't quite sure of why tracking shots were used a lot at first but then realised following John was a clear significant part of the film, and made me anticipate what he was going to do next as you weren't sure of this; but at the same time made me feel more and more involved. The part of the film that really confused me was the part when people were walking up the corridor and started taking pictures (of what I can remember) and this repeated itself several times which I really do not understand the concept or relevance of it, which put me off concentrating on the film for a while.

I felt that the use of the camera shots were clever and manipulating for specific and relevant reasons however I find the film hard to understand which is why I'm struggling to write things about it! For the way I feel about the film I really did not like it and found the ending annoying because I wanted to know whether to two people got shot or what happened to them which I found ruined it for me because I hate being held in suspense especially when you will never know what's going to happen.