The Green Elephant (1999)

Perfectly adorable

Just intense enough to provide a much-needed diversion, just lightweight enough to make you forget about it soon after it’s over. It’s not exactly “good,” per se, but it does what it sets out to do in terms of putting us on edge, which makes it … successful?

This is one of the best movies I’ve seen in a very long time. You have to go and see this on the big screen.

This is a dark and sometimes deeply uncomfortable drama

Very nice movie. Have watched many times. Going to watch many more.

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.

A hearth-warming story about friendship and the hardships of making new friends in unfriendly places. An improvised and minimalistic narrative and scenario will tell us about stuff such as hard work, regrets, life experiences, different points of view, duty, honor and consequences of your actions.The great finale only is worth your time to watch this modern masterpiece, made for you by a savant prodigy of cinematographic arts, Svetlana Baskova. This movie is more than just a motion picture on your screen...Green Elephant is love. Green Elephant is life.

The Green Elephant is a film about human freedom, a cornerstone of its value and invaluable to the individual. Also, dedicated to the highest human qualities: courage, honor, selflessness and male friendship. Movies about possible metamorphoses of human nature in a closed space, total humiliation and hopelessness and just awesome allegory on the Russian army by Svetlana Baskova.Definitely one of the best Russian movie ever. Want to get unforgettable impression from entertaining dialogs and preposterous picture? Just do it! Anyway, this film doesn't leave anyone indifferent.