Humans are as cruel as untamed dogs. (The film was finished posthumously, with the rights returning to his family.) Growing up, his teachers either favored him for his smarts or hated him for his long hair, his rebellious and “lazy” nature. There’s associative poetry in the editing, in the match cuts, and the long, meandering Steadicam shots that recall, in their length and sorrowful banality, Béla Tarr. Bien au contraire. is not one of those “we are all connected” films; rather, it strives to show how economic desperation is widespread, and how suffering knows no bias. The serenity of the unmoving animal beckons them, and their lives coalesce as they all search for a quietus to their suffering. Dialogue like “This world is really disgusting,” “Life is a wasteland,” and “People do not get better,” repeated with beleaguered enthusiasm, forms the chorus of Hu Bo’s fatalistic fugue.At the end of the film, we hear the prolonged trumpet of an elephant.
Hu Bo (Chinese: 胡波, 20 July 1988 – 12 October 2017), also known by his pen name Hu Qian (Chinese: 胡遷), was a Chinese novelist and film director, best known for his only feature film An Elephant Sitting Still (2018), which garnered widespread praise from critics. An Elephant Sitting Still (2018) is tainted by death. His neighbor, moody high-school misfit Wei Bu, stands up to a bully and pushes him down a flight of stairs. The malaise of disenfranchised Chinese youth and the forgotten elderly hangs over everything like a funeral veil. If anything it’s the background characters that show the more dangerous signs of depression that the main protagonists are trying to escape. I’ll agree with your insightful and well-written commentary, Rand. I’ll also venture to add to and underscore your perspective of the elephant being a symbol of hope and redemption by mentioning the inclusion of the granddaughter in the little ragtag group traveling to see the elephant. One watches the film, a miserable and extraordinary endeavor, painful and profound, as it trundles along at a torpid, woebegone pace, unable to disassociate the filmmaker’s death from the desolation of his final testament. “There’s not much to life really,” lamented Hu Bo. Tormentors go unpunished. It’s a film of action and reaction, before and after. The city is permeated by an ashen sallowness. His premature death haunts the story like an unsound apparition. Violence can, Hu posits, have a purpose, but so can it take away purpose — violence committed against others, against one’s self. The sky is anemic. In the theater at the New Directors/New Films Festival, quiet applause rose as a dedication flashed onscreen, a photograph of Hu Bo smiling with unkempt shoulder-length hair. Why did no one help? Wang’s head hanging low suddenly becomes Yang’s, as billows of smoke rise from his cigarette. Nicknamed the “sleeping god,” Hu was always late for class even though he lived just two hundred meters away. (The film was finished posthumously, with […] I viewed her presence with the group as a symbol of innocence and perhaps the type of trust and blind optimism that only a child can have. He plays with shallow focus, keeping characters close to the camera in the foreground legible while action occurs blurred and ambiguous in the background. This economically ravaged city comprises bullies and broken people, and sometimes the bullies are broken too. A man throws himself out of a window, landing face-down on the concrete. When Wang approaches the murderous dog’s owners, they respond with aggressive apathy, with threats. “There is a circus elephant in Manchuria,” the gang leader Yang Cheng—world-weary despite pop-star good looks—muses to his lover at the film’s beginning. A lot of people don’t realize that depression is actually a lack of emotion or feeling. Those who visit throw food at it, but the elephant no longer cares.”For the next 230 minutes, we follow the all-in-a-day humiliations of a luckless quartet as they attempt to survive and escape their escalating predicaments by journeying toward the elephant on strike, a romanticized Golden Fleece.
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