There is an elephant in Manchuria, whether your escape can find a place that truly belongs to the self-tranquility, this is "The Elephant Sits on the Ground".
The film is the legacy of young director Hu Bo, some people, poor people have never shot a good work in their lives, but some people leave a good work, and they have left this world. He defended the dignity of his work with his own death, so what about this film?
Four very different people, teaming up on an elephant hunt. Life is a web that binds the self, and no one can really break free. The so-called life is that you know that living is a pain, but you have to struggle in this pain.
The four hours of the unedited version of the film tell the story of four people a day, Yu Cheng, for the younger brother, he is a strong brother, but under the authority of his parents, he is just a bastard, a shit. But the most unusual thing this nest did was to sleep with his brother's wife. And this incident, witnessed by the brothers themselves, became the last straw to crush the other party, and finally he watched his brother jump down from the stairs.
What needs to be faced forward is the death of the brother, but what is to be faced backward is the curse of the parents to find the murderer of the brother. Yu Cheng's life was in a dilemma, and he didn't know where to go.
Webb, who had the worst life, his drunken father, the city of life, this middle school without any future, his life was like a trash can on the side of the road, not valued by anyone, and could not escape the choice of fate.
Originally, the dispute had nothing to do with Webb, but this time, in order to help his friends, he seemed to have become a murderer. At this time, Webb could only think of escape, he thought of the elephants in Manchuria, and wanted to find a hope.
As for Huang Ling, she has an extremely bad original family, not so much that she is obsessed with the director of teaching, but that she longs for the warmth of the family and places an emotion on the other party. The crazy spread of the video makes Huang Ling have no courage to stay in the school, but where can she go?
The old man, ben has his own house, but the son's occupation, the granddaughter's school district house, he has no room for existence in this home.
It is not that he does not love his granddaughter, but he also does not want to go to a nursing home, the dog has become the meaning of his existence in this family, but the death of the dog has squeezed the space that the elderly only have to live to the extreme.
These four people, their lives have gone to the narrowest wrong path, and no one has left them with the possibility of survival.
Reality is like a vicious dog, forcing them to walk, the elephants in Manchuria, the beautiful and symbolic hope of a new life, the elephants who can sit on the ground, can really help their lives, find the meaning of life for them.
The tragedy and mourning of life are vividly displayed in this film, what Hu Bo interprets to us is not the yearning for a better life in the future, but in the bloody and painful life, the essence is pulled apart, let people see the end, you still have to continue to move forward, to continue to live, is there really an elephant in Manchuria? In fact, what people need is the courage to live to die even in the most depressed and depressing life.
On this desperate and ruined night, four people who did not know where they were going met.
The elephants in Manchuria are nothing more than false roars, and in this wasteland world, there is pain at the time of birth, but people still have to choose to survive. The elephants in Manchuria are like the sustenance of people's hearts, and the difficulties of life cannot be solved by escape. At least on this night when the bus was running, everyone got a spiritual relaxation in this short time.
The wasteland of the world may be a different visual, which will bring a new feeling.