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“An Elephant Sitting Still” A solitary 234 minutes that shows the “voiceless scream”

2019.11.05

Onodera lineage

Synopsis

morning.

<Chen>

Chen (Chang Yu) wakes up in his best friend's wife's room.

As I was taking a sip, my best friend suddenly knocked on the door.

“Is anyone there?”

He tries to hide in a corner, but the door opens and his best friend comes in.

“Was it you?”

With one look at Chen, his best friend jumped out the window right in front of him.

<gin>

An old man named Jing (Li Zhongxi) wakes up in a narrow tatami room next to a window.

"Rent in the educational district costs three times as much as normal."

In order for their granddaughter to go on to higher education, her husband and wife plan to take advantage of the move and place him in a nursing home.

``Father-in-law, we are having a hard time too.'' Selfish family members.

While out for a walk, Jin's dog is bitten by another dog.

<Rin>

Lin (Wang Yuwen) is getting ready in a dark, closed room.

Empty cans were scattered on the floor, and laundry was left to dry. The toilet is leaking again.

The mother wakes up after being splashed with water by Rin.

"I have a cake, I bought it for you."

There is a crushed birthday cake in a box on the desk.

Sighing, I headed to the school and visited the vice principal with whom I had a relationship.

<Boo>

Bu's (Peng Yu-chan) friend Kai is suspected of stealing a cell phone and is involved with Shuai, a delinquent.

``He didn't steal.'' Boo protects Kai.

An angry Shuai grabbed Boo's bag and held her down. Boo tries to shake it off.

The reaction causes Shuai to fall down the stairs. A dull sound echoes around.

Boo ran away from the scene.

Boo runs away and Shuai's brother Chen chases after him. After seeing a flyer about a big circus that he picked up on the bus, Boo becomes curious about the existence of a strange elephant that just sits all day long, and invites Jin and Rin to head to the far end of Manzhouli, 2300km away. Plan...