En la ciudad de Manzhouli, en el norte de China, dicen que hay un elefante que simplemente se sienta e ignora el mundo. Manzhouli se convierte en una obsesión para los protagonistas de esta película, un ansiado escape de la espiral descendente en la que se encuentran. Entre ellos se encuentra el colegial Bu, en la carrera después de empujar a Shuai por las escaleras, quien antes lo estaba acosando. El compañero de clase de Bu, Ling, se ha escapado de su madre y se ha enamorado de los encantos de su maestra. El hermano mayor de Shuai, Cheng, se siente responsable por el suicidio de un amigo. Y, finalmente, junto con muchos otros personajes cuyos destinos están inseparablemente unidos, está el Sr. Wang, un jubilado alegre que quiere que lo descarguen en una casa. En composiciones visuales virtuosas, la película cuenta la historia de un solo día de suspenso desde el amanecer hasta el atardecer, cuando el tren a Manzhouli está listo para partir. (Fuente: IMDb) Edit Translation
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- Título original: 大象席地而坐
- También conocida como: Da xiang xi di er zuo
- Guionista y Director: Hu Bo
- Géneros: Psicológico, Drama
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Reparto y créditos
- Peng Yu Chang Papel principal
- Wang Yu WenHuang LingPapel principal
- Li Cong XiWang JinPapel principal
- Dong Xiang Rong[Teaching office's vice director]Papel secundario
- Ling Zheng HuiLi KaiPapel secundario
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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.