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Elephant (1989)
 

Synopsis

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A man walks into a public swimming pool and searches the corridors. He finds the janitor cleaning the changing rooms and shoots him with a shotgun. A car pulls into a petrol station at night; a man gets out of the car, walks up to the counter, pulls out a pistol and shoots the cashier. Upon entering a disused factory, a man is ambushed and shot repeatedly in the back. At another factory, a man searches the corridors. Upon finding another man in the toilet, he shoots him with a shotgun.

Daytime in a quiet park. After initially walking past two men, a third man turns around and shoots them both in the back with a pistol. Two men walk into a café at night-time. One of the men approaches a diner and shoots him in the head. At an empty warehouse, a man pulls out a shotgun and shoots another man twice in the back. A quiet street in the evening. A man knocks on a front door. The door is opened and the first man shoots the second six times in the back.

Daytime, three youths play football in a park. A man approaches them and asks one of them where he was last night. Before the youth has finished his reply, the man shoots him. A petrol station at night. A man is returning to his car after paying for his fuel only to be shot by a man waiting outside. A man walks into a flat above a butcher's shop and shoots the two occupants with a pistol. A man opens his door only to be shot by another man with a pistol.

A factory at night. A man walks in and shoots another six times with a pistol. A man follows another man through a car park. When the first man reaches his car, he is shot twice with a pistol. An industrial estate during the day. Two armed men chase a third man. One of the armed men shoots the third man with a shotgun - he falls but is still alive. The other man walks up to the fallen man and shoots him in the head with a pistol. A man answers his front door to another man who bursts in and kills him and another occupant.

Two men approach a house. One goes to the front door, the other waits at the back. The house's two occupants flee out of the back only to be shot by the waiting man. Two men walk through a deserted factory at night eventually reaching an empty room where third man waits for them. One of the two men stands the other against a wall and the third man shoots him in the back.