Daisy Hildyard

It’s a bewilderingly promiscuous world view

The second body appears to pose a threat to the first body – the real one, the one you live in. Any body which is global cannot accommodate an individual, who moves in her own individual way, who makes individual choices and has individual thoughts – this global body, which is entirely without boundaries, doesn’t understand that individuals exist at all.

Like the characters in ‘Elephant’, Marcello is no longer visible as an individual, but has become indistinguishable as a physical entity. Clark characterises Billy by the emissions of the vehicles he owns, and Lila witnesses Marcello quite literally melting into a human-car hybrid. For Lila the experience is very much a physical one – it causes her to describe the bodies of her friends and family in a kind of extreme detail