Elephants sit on the ground

I have been very confused why to use such a name, the elephant sitting on the ground and wanting to express what kind of image, what is the deep meaning, combined with the state of the main characters in the film, after their own thinking and understanding, I think it wants to express the elephant sitting on the ground and presented by the picture of peace, peace, ease and satisfaction, and for such a behemoth as an elephant, to get such a state, it must be enough loose and free to move space or have a simple, pure mind - optimistic, Quiet and easy to satisfy, all this is simply a luxury for the people in the film, or it is a yearning in their hearts, longing and unattainable.

Almost all of the main characters in the film are in a state of resentment, frustration, and depression.

The house and the sense of space it represents are inked throughout the film, constantly rendering a depressing atmosphere.

Webb's home was dark and cramped, and the house was full of stench, mixed with his father's sneering sarcasm and his mother's silence, and his own low and weak confession made the darkness even heavier.

Yu Cheng was blocked in the corner by his friends who suddenly returned home, and at that time, he longed for a seam to fit, but there was no, so he could only face the embarrassment, face the cruel scene that happened in front of him, and from then on became a stone that could not be moved in his heart, and the origin of all this was only to vent a love that could not be desired.

Friends certainly have the stimulation of betrayal by lovers and friends, but the deep-seated reason is despair of life, including being forced to buy a house by his girlfriend, and the meager income can not support such a high mortgage, so he chooses to jump out, jumps out of the house that makes him breathless, and also abandons the world that makes him sad and disappointed, and completes the liberation with death.

Wang Jin because his granddaughter is already old, no longer need his care, no use value by his daughter, son-in-law swept out of the house, driven out of his own house, forced to the nursing home, began to raise dogs as an excuse, accompanied by more than ten years of dogs unfortunately bitten to death, so that he has no reason to stay, but every room he sees in the nursing home is like a tomb of the dead, gray, gloomy, dull, do not feel a little breath of life, the old man living there is a living dead waiting for death But where else could he go?

Huang Ling and her mother's appearance also began with a quarrel, the reason for the beginning was that the toilet was running water, obviously the house was also old, broken, crippled, old, originally small space, and was occupied by thrown messy things, but also another place where the daughter expressed dissatisfaction with her mother, and it was also the reason why she went to find the deputy director, which led to the later video exposure in the group, she just felt that the deputy director's home was wide and tidy, and she just wanted to find a place to feel comfortable, find someone who could talk and chat casually. Find a male character who was missing from birth, and finally jump out of the window sill in a quarrel with her mother, avoiding the deputy director couple who came to the door to vent their dissatisfaction, and away from the home that made her hopeless.

That kind of depressed, depressed emotion hung over everyone's head, and no one had ever smiled the whole time, either gloomy or angry, either complaining or accusing, or running away and hiding, as if everyone was struggling, but seemed so powerless.

Everyone is eager to get the attention, understanding and tolerance of others, but everyone is so selfish and self-sufficient, Huang Ling and her mother are in love, but the trivial and cruel reality of life has tormented them so that they will not choose to express it in a suitable way, the mother does not want the daughter to repeat her tragedy, the daughter hopes that the mother can be like a mother in a normal family, so that this originally crippled home retains a little warmth.

The whole film presents a grayish tone, either covered with dark corners or large areas of gray, no blue sky, no shining and warm sunlight, and no green full of life. They all wanted to find an outlet to vent, and they were particularly eager to be able to smooth out all this disturbance, but they were so powerless, just like Yu Cheng asked Webb, "If you stand on the balcony of a tall building, what will you do?" Webb's answer was "what can I do" Yes, they don't know what to do, just like the things they do can't figure out why they do it, Webb just thinks that his friends should help, Yu Cheng just feels that his brother has been beaten, although he is not willing to make any results, but he feels that he always has to do something.

Fleeing is only a temporary escape, and it is still necessary to come, either to simply and sharply end up with oneself, like a friend in the city or a classmate of Webb, desperate and determined; or to endure humiliation and live recklessly, helpless and hopeless; or like Webb's grandmother, no one cares, and a person lives in obscurity until a person dies quietly. I don't know whether the elephant cries from afar in the last night are a call of hope or a cry of despair, I believe that everyone will have their own answers in their hearts.