He made a couple of short films and was also a novelist, publishing two books “Huge Crack” and “Bullfrog” in 2017. In 2015 she was selected as a part of the Locarno Critics Academy and has been pursuing a career in film criticism ever since. Er wollte eine düstere, bedrückende Umgebung zeigen, Nebel und Smog. Even with a sometimes aloof and cold performance style, the characters are imbued with love and adoration by a camera that feels invested in shedding light on their struggle and endurance.
Railways pass through the city, a series of arteries and tributaries, allowing for trade and movement of goods. In einer gesichtslosen Stadt im Norden Chinas, zugepflastert mit grauen Hochhäusern. Debüt und Testament. Directed by Bo Hu. Long takes are filled with aching silences, as captured by an uncomfortably intimate camera. "An Elephant Sitting Still" ist ein grandioses Gesellschaftsportrait.Der junge Regisseur Hu Bo hat zuvor unter dem Synonym Hu Qian zwei preisgekrönte Romane geschrieben, er galt nicht wenigen Kritikern als junges Genie. With a 54 kilometer border shared with Russia, the city of Manzhouli in China is in the country’s most northern corner. "Hu Bo war ein enger Freund von mir. The railways rather than being a path of freedom become bogged down with bureaucratic limitations, unreliable schedules and frequent scams. He was just 28 years old. Wie die anderen wirkt er aufgefressen von den Konflikten des Alltags. Es ist feucht und düster, es liegt Schneematsch und der Smog verzieht sich nur selten. So beginnt der Film. Nach der Fertigstellung des Films hat sich Hu Bo im Alter von 29 Jahren das Leben genommen. Er zeigt die existenzielle Leere zwischen den Menschen. Love does not overcome all within a broken social system: love leads to shame, betrayal and unhappiness.Yet, love and beauty remain a constant source of minute, if not fleeting, pleasure. If cinema’s central identity is tied to capturing time, “An Elephant Sitting Still” captures the drudgery of time once its spiritual significance has been lost.
Die Filmlänge von 3 Stunden 50 Minuten ist ungewohnt, die langen Bildeinstellungen wirken anfangs befremdlich. "Zhang Yu spielt den Charakter Yu Cheng, der sich für den Suizid eines Freundes verantwortlich fühlt. It feels like a detective searching for answers to an impossible puzzle. Now, usually, it is advised to shoot something, some short film or a video before taking on a big project like this. In an unnamed town in Northern China, four characters struggle with their own personal predicament too messy to untangle, all in a day’s time. Der Film ist in Hebei gedreht, in der Nachbarprovinz von Peking. The sun rarely peeks out from beyond the clouds and the four central characters are burdened with a deeply seated hopelessness. Love means obligation, which often means tethering yourself to people who have long been broken by mistreatment and inequality and who no longer have the capacity to return it. Vier Menschen, die sich im Leben in einer Sackgasse befinden: emotional, finanziell und auch moralisch.Schicksalhaft kreuzen sich ihre Wege. Love is one-sided, as is the case with a young student having an affair with her teacher. Dort wo Schwerindustrie und Kohle das chinesische Wirtschaftswunder befeuern. Der chinesische Schauspieler Zhang Yu spielt einen der Protagonisten. As the camera usually adopts a low-angle perspective, there is a strange reverence attached to these images as well. The characters are beaten down by life but they are still capable of love and connection. The pace remains slack but time has regained meaning outside of suffering, at least for a few hours along an unfamiliar path. Who are these people? Justine Smith is a writer based in Montreal, Quebec. "Am Ende ein Bus im Dunkeln. Und wenn sich mal kurz blauer Himmel zeigte, hat Hu Bo sich gleich beschwert, dass das Wetter gegen ihn sei. So erhoffen sie sich einen Ausweg aus ihrem tristen, krisenhaften Leben.
Suddenly there is scope, perspective, and spiritual silence. For a small time gangster, love means giving yourself over to people and systems that will almost inevitably betray you. In a convergence of destinies, the characters are drawn to the city of Manzhouli and the influence of a mythical elephant. Vier Menschen im Nordosten Chinas haben die fixe Idee, einen Elefanten aufzusuchen, der nur regungslos dasitzt und die Welt ignoriert. While circumstances are claustrophobic and stifling, Bo's movie seems to balance that with strange and surreal impulses of the heart. And he has previously worked behind the camera.
The mise-en-scene reflects characters and environments caught in a perpetual loop with little hope for escape. It is impossible to watch its final act and not feel the warming sensation that maybe tomorrow will be different, bringing change and offering beauty, love or hope. Taking place within a single 24-hour period, the character’s lives are filled with incident. Am frühen Morgen und kurz bevor die Nacht anbrach. "Es hat einen Grund, warum Regisseur Hu Bo diesen Drehort gewählt hat. Ein Alltag, der durchsetzt ist von Mobbing, Egoismus, Schlägereien, Affären und Einsamkeit. It is not a cure-all in the way it would be in a Disney princess fantasy, but it is enough to sustain existence in spite of its high risk and low reward ratio. The four narratives intersect in Hu’s incisive screenplay.
Vielleicht wird das die Erlösung.
Zum Symbol für die Sehnsucht nach einem anderen, besseren Leben.Wo gehst Du hin? By the movie’s last shot, the camera has stepped outside of the intimate closeness of its characters. Er hat uns dieses Werk hinterlassen. “An Elephant Sitting Still” runs at 230 minutes and is overwhelmingly grey. As "An Elephant Sitting Still" runs towards its epic confrontational climax, a sense of doom is measured against the growing influence of love. "An Elephant Sitting Still" ist ein grandioses Gesellschaftsportrait. In a convergence of destinies, the characters are drawn to the city of Manzhouli and the influence of a mythical elephant.
Abseits des Glitzers, des Geldes und der Dynamik, die das offizielle China gerne propagiert.Hu Bo hat einen sentimentalen, emotionalen und bewegenden Film geschaffen, ohne dabei ins Kitschige abzugleiten.
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