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The Green Elephant is shot in a hand held way on a poor quality VHS camera that gives it a look of a war crime. It looks as if it's been downloaded from Ogrish and as if we are about to witness a real atrocity. The content certainly echoes that feeling with two guys locked in a basement, one of them is seemingly not all there and his mad ramblings are sending the other insane. The man that has already lost it is berated over and over again then he finally snaps. Whilst our somewhat sane friend finally gets some sleep, the other decides to do his friend a favour by defecating on a plate and rubbing it all over himself and then wakes his friend to offer him some to eat. All seemingly for real too. The two are eventually taken from the basement prison by the guard and his assistant. Here they are berated some more and the more mentally unstable of the two is forced to give the officer oral sex. This is where the other finally snaps and kills the officer, rapes him then rips out is throat and makes his friend use it as a trunk.

The whole film has a horrible feel to it. The hand-held VHS camera-work really puts you in the basement with the two and the feeling of claustrophobia is felt in a strong way. So much so that you long to leave the cell and yet when you do when one of the soldiers is let out to do some work, the only rest bite you get is to watch him being made to clean a filthy toilet with a fork. You also get some black and white segments that show the guard and his assistant on the outside of the cell. I'm not sure what these sections are attempting to portray. The problem with the film is that it is attempting to go for something deep. I've read that the director has some feminist intentions with it but these were lost on me. It all comes across as a bit pretentious with the overly vile dialog being screamed at the characters getting boring and loosing all impact fast. While the film certainly does pack a punch, it is a little lost on the fact that over the 90 minute runtime, little really happens and it becomes a chore to get through not for the horrific content but for the sheer dullness of it all.

4/10

I'm being generous by giving this "movie" a 2. Basically, it's just two guys in a locked room who eventual descend into nightmarish madness. It's gory and raw and not for everyone. (Some folks would say that it's for NO ONE). If you're into flicks like "Slaughtered Vomit Dolls," the "Guinea Pig" series, and the "August Underground" trilogy, this one will be right up your alley.

First off, it's not a film. It's video, and relatively poor quality at that. Maybe it was the censor's doing, but really, they didn't have to edit the blow job part so poorly. That particular section of the video was blown up so closely that you only saw the back part of the older man's face who was doing the fellatio. They may as well had let that part in because the violence towards the end was far more graphic than what a simple BJ is. Had they left the scene as originally video taped I would've given "Green Elephant" a 4.

If you're into movies like "Salo" you still may not like this one because it was poorly taped. "Salo," despite its subject matter, was at least film well. "Green Elephant" just looks like a staged production of an ultra-graphic play. Is it recommended? Not really. Sometimes, in this genre of underground filmmaking, you sometimes unearth a few gems - mainly those by Marian Dora. "Green Elephant" is a miss. Only view it if coprophilia doesn't make up upchuck.

I have seen the best movie ever in my life, in Russia, it's a great meme material. The best is to listen into the stories, and such. Fun fact: "Bratishka", or Vladimir Epifancev, is the Fear's voice actor from the Russian version of Inside Out.