"Elephant Song": There is a kind of love called letting go

A world-famous soprano had a one-night stand with a hunter who caught elephants for a living on a journey to Africa, and had a boy, Mike, whose birth was an embarrassment to his mother, whose childhood was without the company of his father and without much tenderness and care from his mother. When Mike was six years old, he first met his father, and when he saw his father raise a gun and shoot an elephant, young Mike had a nervous breakdown, and his mother noticed his abnormality when she picked him up at the airport, and in order to appease him, she sang him "Elephant Song", which is the source of the movie's name.

Elephants are mentioned many times in the film, elephant tears, elephant pregnancy, elephant recognition of kinship bones, elephant memory, and Mike's elephant complex... At the age of 14, Mike found that his mother was overdose and poisoned, he did not immediately send his mother to the hospital for rescue, but sang "Elephant Song" to her, and the death of his mother made Mike, who seemed to be at a loss for time, become insane again and was admitted to a mental hospital.

At the age of six, he witnessed the tragic death of an elephant, at the age of fourteen he witnessed the tragic death of his mother, at the age of fourteen he was admitted to a mental hospital, at the age of fifteen he fell in love with a male doctor named Lawrence, and at the age of nineteen he first told Dr. Green about his life and suffering, taking the deadly nut chocolate and leaving this cold world with despair, which was Mike's life.

Let's look at another line: Dr. Green, the head of the psychiatric hospital, who was originally a couple with Miss Peterson, the nurse on duty, who divorced because of the accident of their daughter Rachel, although working in the same hospital, the exchange for three years was only "good morning". Because of the doctor's sex scandal that had just occurred at the hospital, the board of directors took Dr. Lawrence's disappearance very seriously and told Dr. Green to investigate the matter. At this time, Dr. Green did not come out of the haze of the pain of the death of his beloved daughter, nor did he enter the happiness of his new home.

Nurse Peterson, unable to face the marriage because of her poor care that led to the death of her daughter Rachel, she focused on the patient with a pair of eagle eyes, while paying attention to her ex-husband, Dr. Green, even if it was a stalemate of not speaking for three years, but when Dr. Green needed her, she always appeared at the first time.

It turns out that Dr. Lawrence left the hospital because his sister suddenly suffered a stroke, and the patient Mike took the note without anyone noticing, yes, there is a platonic love between Dr. Lawrence and Mike. However, the hospital thought that Dr. Lawrence had been killed and disappeared.

The film takes The disappearance of Dr. Lawrence as a lead and begins with Chairman Jones' questioning of Dr. Green and Nurse Peterson, but is largely devoted to a conversation between Dr. Green and Mike's patient, between whom a game of cat and mouse begins. Dr. Green ends up not only finding Out Lawrence's whereabouts, but also learning the true cause of Mike's illness.

Mike offers Dr. Green three conditions from the beginning--- leave the hospital, chocolate, and don't ask Nurse Peterson, and poor him ends up committing suicide.

It's a blue movie, and the atmosphere isn't very depressing, but it's not cheerful at all. At the end of the film, after Mike's departure, Dr. Green resigns, he is finally relieved of his daughter's death, and the iceberg between him and his ex-wife Nurse Peterson melts.

Dr. Lawrence's explanation of the word trompe ---- "elephant trunk" and "deception", and once again pointed out the main theme of the movie--- truth and lies, reality and fantasy, entanglement and letting go.

Javier Dolan, an early-established Canadian talented director, was involved in the show, and my wonderful acting skills made me very interested in his films. Dolan's films pay special attention to the profundity and complexity of the mother-child relationship, looking forward to watching his works "I Killed My Mom", "Mommy", "Double-Faced Lawrence", "Tom on the Farm" and so on.