The elephant sitting on the ground won the 55th Golden Horse Award for best film. Why did it win?

Paul Hu's The Elephant Sitting on the Ground won the Golden Horse Award for Best Drama. The film attracted much attention because of the suicide of director Paul Hu. At present, the movie "Elephant Sitting on the Ground" can be watched online, and the version is a 230-minute director's cut version. The true face of this movie was finally exposed, and every fan had a different "elephant sitting on the ground".

I didn't expect much from "Elephant Sitting on the Ground" when I watched it before. If it is listed as my must-see film in this film festival, I initially tried to find clues to understand Paul Hu's inner world through this masterpiece out of curiosity. However, the quality of this film greatly exceeded my psychological expectation.

Based on past experience, before watching the movie, I imagined that "Elephant Sitting on the Floor" would be an obscure and boring literary film, like the works of most independent directors who participated in the Youth Forum in China, with emphasis on form over content, thoughts over stories and slow pace. However, the film tells stories unexpectedly and is fascinating. In the past twenty years, the only film I have seen for nearly four hours is the longest feature film I have ever seen, which is a new record. "Elephant" was finished with a single shot and a long shot, and Fan Chao, a classmate of Beiying, served as a photographer. However, the film was adapted from a novel, with a single protagonist expanded to four roles, and the plot was very rich and tense, with few unnecessary shots. As the lens enters the inner story of the four characters, it melts into a masterpiece, which is definitely an indispensable representative film of Chinese mainland in the past ten years (not because this film is the legacy of director Paul Hu, but because this film is definitely a rare fable and profound one in Chinese mainland).

In Manzhouli Zoo, everyone has an elephant sitting on the ground. This is like a utopia and dream in his heart.

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