This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.
I've started to enjoy these three- and four-hour films more and more recently, and a big reason why is that they give me time and space to just sit and think. An Elephant Sitting Still does the same, following four characters throughout their day in a crumbling city in today's China, but without giving you something real nice to think about. It's not only the city these characters populate that crumbles, it's their lives, as everyone walks around caring only…