I was really disappointed in this movie. I found it to be boring throughout most of the film and and at the end I found the reactions by many of the students to be unrealistic. They're following these students throughout what is supposed to be an ordinary day in high school that ends with with two students going on a gun rampage at school. There was a lack of dialog with a lot of the scenes just following a students as they walked around campus. There were a lot of scenes from what was supposed to be a different perspective (e.g., one scene shows a conversation between two boys in the hall and a girl walks by. They show the scene THREE times from each student's "perspective" but you don't learn anything new from each scene.) I have to say if a movie ends with a many high school students getting killed and I don't shed a tear, there must be something wrong. I really expected so much more because when I saw the previews it seemed to have so much potential.

Netflix Synopsis: Elephant is a tale about high school violence that unfolds on an ordinary school day, inside a typical American high school filled with the usual goings-on -- schoolwork, football, gossip and peer pressure. For each of the students we meet, high school is a different experience: stimulating, friendly, traumatic, lonely or just plain hard. Directed by indie film auteur Gus Van Sant.