Elephant (2003 film)

Elephant is a 2003 American psychological drama written and directed by Gus Van Sant, drawing inspiration from the 1999 Columbine High School massacre. The film follows several students at a Portland, Oregon high school through an ordinary day in which two of their classmates are quietly preparing a shooting, showing the hours leading up to and during the attack from multiple overlapping perspectives and ending ambiguously. It won both the Palme d'Or and the Best Director award at the 2003 Cannes Film Festival. Critics generally praised the film, though it remained controversial for its subject matter and was later cited, controversially, as a possible influence on subsequent school shootings including the 2005 Red Lake incident and the 2019 Suzano attack. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/