An Elephant Sitting Still (2018) poster
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  • Pays: China
  • Catégorie: Movie
  • Date de sortie: févr. 16, 2018
  • Durée: 3 hr. 54 min.
  • Score: 7.6 (scored by 220 utilisateurs)
  • Classé: #4720
  • Popularité: #10589
  • Classification du contenu: 13+ - Teens 13 or older

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chiha
6 personnes ont trouvé cette critique utile
nov. 22, 2021
Complété 3
Globalement 8.0
Histoire 8.0
Acting/Cast 8.0
Musique 8.0
Degrés de Re-visionnage 8.0

The story of a day

“There is an elephant in Manzhouli. It sits there all day long.”

And no matter how many people stab it with forks, offer it food, chide it or console it, it does not move. It remains stationary the whole time, throughout its life. It remains still even when life progresses. It remains still when time stops.

“An Elephant Sitting Still” is the first and last film by Hu Bo, who died by suicide soon after its release. It has definitely won "stuff" at film festivals but in terms of camerawork and filmmaking, An Elephant Sitting Still is hardly a masterpiece. It is bleak and grey, mostly the camera follows the heads of our characters as they walk. There is nothing special about it in terms of sound except when the elephant roars.

This entire story of 4 hours is based on a single day. It shows us four extremely different people: a high school boy with an unloving family, his friend who has an affair with the school dean, an old man who isn't given a home in his own house by his own son and a gangster man whose friend commits suicide. All these people are united in the bleakness they are trapped in, and all of them, on the very same day, witness death. And it's amazing how many deaths can occur in a day, and even more surprising is how plausible the story is.

At some point in the movie, I wondered if I was reading a suicide note. Something that is tragic and still and yet, moving forward with a purpose. The human life it fragile and fleeting, no matter what happens, no matter how much you are beaten down, life is forever going ahead and the elephant will still be sitting at Manzhouli.

Despite being bleak, “An Elephant Sitting Still” possesses a timeless grace. Despite having minimal dialogue where the characters seem to speak in broken sentences with even more left unsaid, the characters have a strange connection. Despite being 4 hours long, it is not boring.

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PHope
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nov. 21, 2018
Complété 0
Globalement 5.0
Histoire 7.0
Acting/Cast 7.0
Musique 5.0
Degrés de Re-visionnage 3.0
This one is a long long one. Four hours length, with a simple yet realistic story about people who see their lives being ruined and try to hope. I can't say that the story kept me interested throughout its huge length. Sometimes it felt like nothing was happening. It was like watching a documentary. It did pick up eventually. The ending was kind of odd too. But overall the performances were really good from all the characters who's lives were tangled together somehow. So, five out of ten, for its simplicity, but the length can't be explained.
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  • Movie: An Elephant Sitting Still
  • Pays: Chine
  • Date de sortie: févr. 16, 2018
  • Durée: 3 hr. 54 min.
  • Classification du contenu: 13+ - Adolescents de 13 ans ou plus

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  • Score: 7.6 (marqué par 220 utilisateurs)
  • Classé: #4720
  • Popularité: #10589
  • Téléspectateurs: 703

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