Diary entries forAn Elephant Sitting Still
An Elephant Sitting Still
March Around the World '25 (31/31): China 🇨🇳. What a way to end this challenge, also what a way to end a film like no other.
An Elephant Sitting Still
Cerita gada happy happynya pisan + Tone filmnya agak muram muram makin film ini menjadi obat tidur yang mantap. *Just kidding hehe, bagus kok walaupun pacingnya menurut gua agak "Lambat" Iyasih ngeliat durasinya bikin geleng geleng kepala hahaha. ( Gua nonton 2 film hari ini karna film pertama tadi film tolol, nyesel nonton brengsek. )
An Elephant Sitting Still
long ass fuckin movie
An Elephant Sitting Still
"New place, new sufferings." But what about the places that you're born into? What if that place begins with your father screaming at you, calling you something nasty, something that you don't want to believe, but know very well you are? The film is heartbreaking. Nobody is good, but everyone, eventually, is righteous in the awareness of who they are and who they can be. The film in raw, gliding camera movements, captures things in single shots, holding tension and all the emotions with it. Characters surprise, saying things, doing things that you don't necessarily expect, and it catches you off guard. How all lives of the four characters weave together so beautifully. We don't not get to choose where we are from, but we can always choose where to go from where we are. I could not help but find the entire film mesmerizing despite its runtime. Perhaps it's because of the emptiness of the film, the people, the place, that allows us to do most of the work, filling in all the gaps with our own hurt as we pain through the characters. By the very last scene, in all of the ending's quietude, all of my breathing left me, and it's probably because all of my breathing was hope for these characters.
