At the end of the film Elephant, when the shootings were starting to come to an end, and people were escaping the school. We our introduced to a new character of the film, he was an African American boy and his name was Benny. Many people in the class found him disappointing to the film because he was so anticlimactic. We did follow him around for a good 5 minutes and I was expecting him to save the day and steal the gun away from the kid who was about to shoot the principle. But surprisingly all that happened was he was shot just like everybody else who got in the two boys path.

I thought Benny’s character was very powerful, he did not save anyone but he attempted too. Maybe the director wanted him to be seen as the angel in the movie as the hero who was suppose to end the chaos, and the twist was there can’t be any heroes in this movie, that this is such a horrible situation that happened that there is no hope and faith that could put an end to such horrible chaos. That was the climax of his character that it’s suppose to take the faith of good triumphing over evil away from the watcher.