The Ending After committing the massacre, Alex (Alex Frost) and Eric (Eric Deulen) get a drink from the cafeteria which is strewn with dead bodies. The two begin to talk but Alex shoots Eric as he is halfway through speaking. He then calmly leaves the area and finds a couple of students hiding in the freezer. Alex taunts them by picking which he should kill first by reciting eenie, meenie, minie, mo. The screen then cuts to a shot of the sky, leaving their fate unknown. Depressing because Even with the deaths of so many students it is the way Alex shoots Eric which is so depressing. The way in which he can so mercilessly dispatch his partner crime adds yet another layer of criminality to his already hideous character. The utter contempt he has of human life is arguably the most chilling aspect of this frosty film. We dont even get to see justice administered to the deranged young man instead the crafty Van Sant leaves us in a state of limbo where Alex forever roams the hallways of the fictional Watt High School. A Silver-Lining? Fortunately across the Atlantic on our little island, the rather more prudent policies on gun control make it impossible to simply order guns online as the duo in Elephant do.
Hailing from South East London, Sam Heard is an aspiring writer and recent graduate from the University of Warwick. Sam's favourite things include energy drinks, late nights spent watching the UFC with his girlfriend and annihilating his friends at FIFA.
