neglected old people. but still this is a film that manages to find beauty in the most dismal of situations a. director who both committed suicide last year at just twenty nine this debut film is his legacy fellow filmmakers say it s less a critique of today s china than an artistic statement in the past like everybody in the army of the same family. you know and great stars like everybody together but that stuff we now in modern family situation. in china are compared to you know maybe fifty years ago but i think that s also i. if you want to talk about this stuff and sure you know if you go ologists or something that wouldn t be the trend of the whole war right now i think it s also up in the us. there is no public funding available to filmmakers in china they have to rely on the
a time of experimentation and innovation of rejecting certainties and questioning high densities. into a different form in every country it was hugely influential on the question is is it still influential today or did not. a young man who doesn t want to go to work he d rather stay in bed a new voice was making itself heard defiant and recalcitrant. the revolution was in the air nothing would stop how they were going to do things differently from those before them they took that cues from the filmmakers co-operative in new york and london that gave them the confidence to make and distribute films in their own way. is the daughter of filmmaker going for nelson. a lyrical film and expressionistic
its the some kind of values that i could feel in this. values such as solidarity social equality and justice misread ali there was a really don t want to sum up on a lot of you know that s what. made . a part of history that many are still coming to terms with. the film an elephant sitting still takes viewers to china it s for disaffected protagonists a leading lives of desperation and struggle emerging. from our. urban misery and suffering mountains of trash piled up on street corners.
sean: they said the comments would come early in the speech. i assume that s all he s going to say. he said it s a tough day today and only 24 hours after it happened did he say we will bring those people to justice. at no time, did he mention islamic terrorists. perhaps he will refer to this as workplace violence. before the president spoke, the protests in cairo started when a group, reportedly outraged over a low-budget film that insults the prophet mohammed, burned the american flag and replace tuesday with one that is similar to that of al qaeda. 9 1/2 hours straight, the statement and the official position of the government was apologizing to the radicals and it read, quote, from the embationzy, they condemn the continuing efforts by misguided individuals to hurt the religious feelings of muslims.
sean: they said the comments would come early in the speech. i assume that s all he s going to say. he said it s a tough day today and only 24 hours after it happened did he say we will bring those people to justice. at no time, did he mention islamic terrorists. perhaps he will refer to this as workplace violence. before the president spoke, the protests in cairo started when a group, reportedly outraged over a low-budget film that insults the prophet mohammed, burned the american flag and replace tuesday with one that is similar to that of al qaeda. 9 1/2 hours straight, the statement and the official position of the government was apologizing to the radicals and it read, quote, from the embationzy, they condemn the continuing efforts by misguided individuals to hurt the religious feelings of muslims.